This week, the standards group, HL7 announced the release of the personal health record system functional model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.  They expect the finalized standard to hit the streets in early 2008.

You’ll find the PDF press release for this announcement here.  This link will take you to HL7’s resource library search.  Just enter PHR in the “Title” field and you’ll pull up a link to the actual draft PHR-S FM.