Patient-physician communication during clinical encounters is essential to ensure quality of care. Incorporating patient priorities into agenda setting and medical decision-making are fundamental to patient-centered communication. Efficient and scalable approaches are needed to empower patients to speak up and prepare physicians to respond. Leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) in engaging patients and health care teams has the potential to enhance the integration of patient priorities in clinical encounters. A systematic approach to eliciting and documenting patient priorities before encounters could facilitate effective communication in such encounters. This session will describe the development and implementation of a set of EHR-based tools to facilitate joint agenda setting between patients and physicians and to ease the burden of documenting patients’ priorities by physicians in the EHRs.