NORC Executive Vice President Dan Gaylin and Health IT Program Manager Prashila Dullabh were interviewed by Kevin Heubusch, editor in chief of the Journal of American Health Information Management Association (Citation: Heubusch, Kevin. "IT Standards for PHRs: Are PHRs Ready for Standards? Are Standards Ready for PHRs?." Journal of AHIMA 79, no.6 (June 2008): 31-36.)

In the article, Gaylin says, PHRs are in their infancy, so a lot of the learning is establishing what we don’t know—we as a nation—which is an awful lot.”  In enumerating the list of areas included in a recent environmental scan, Dullabh explained that it considered “everything that is currently being done that remotely intersects with what PHRs might do.” Dullabh and Gaylin work on Health IT issues as part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Resource Center for Health Information Technology project.