The end is in sight for the consult letter as we know it today. This has the potential to be a significant benefit delivered by meaningful use standards—physicians will get the clinical information they want and need from other physicians, and they will get it faster and more efficiently. Gone will be the days of lengthy, unstructured notes sent by fax or mail from one provider to another.In today’s world, specialists report to referring physicians (i.e., primary-care providers) via a dictated consult letter or transcribed exam notes. These tend to be text heavy and contain no discrete or importable data. Others send EHR-generated narratives—