A good place to start learning about PHR's is the joint site for AHIMA and HIMSS: myPHR
As that site notes "The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) demonstrated its advocacy for the empowerment of individuals to manage their healthcare by issuing a joint Position Statement for Consumers of Health Care on the Value of Personal Health Records with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in February 2007."
The US Department of Health and Human Services has a much longer formal report in pdf format on PHR's, Personal Health Records and Personal Health Record Systems.
Wikipedia, not an authoritative source but often with more current links than other sites and freely available, has an article on the Personal Health Record with, as of today, 95 links to other sources of information on them, with the most recent cited article being February 2007.
A Chinese version (very abbreviated) of that article is linked there (on the left margin), but there is no Spanish language version given.
An article with the UK viewpoint from the UK's National Health Service titled Personal Health Records and Sharing Patient Information is here, with many good references. Two in particular are these:
Winkleman W, Leonard K & Rossos P. Patient-Perceived Usefulness of Online Electronic Medical Records: Employing Grounded Theory in the Development of Information and Communication Technologies for Use by Patients Living with Chronic Illness. JAMIA Vol. 12, 205:306-314.
and
Winkelman W & Leonard K. Overcoming Structural Constraints to Patient Utilization of Electronic Medical Records: A Critical Review and Proposal for an Evaluation Framework. JAMIA. Vol 11, 2004:151-161.
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