Safe Shepard Safe Shepard

Safe Shepard

Tool for helping manage online privacy

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Safe Shepard Personal Information Analysis

 Safe Shephard is an online privacy protection service that assists you in managing the personal information that you want to allow marketing and consumer information collection companies to gather and store.

Quantified Self Quantified Self

Quantified Self

Guide to Self-Tracking Tools

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Quantified Self logo

The Quantified Self website provides a current list of many of the self-tracking tools out there.

Blue Button - Just What the Doctor Ordered

From HealthIT.gov

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This YouTube video provided by the National Learning Consortium gives a quick overview of why patients and consumers might be interested in using the Blue Button application which allows people to download personal health information.
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Access Your Health Information with the Blue Button

Downloading your Health Data

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From the HealthIT.Gov website: "Blue Button" is a way for you to get easy, secure online access to your health information. To "Blue Button" means you can "download your health data" so you can use it to improve your health and be more...
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Benefits of Health IT

From HealthIT.Gov

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From the HealthIT.Gov website: Until now, relatively few Americans have had the opportunity to use this kind of technology to enhance some of the most important relationships: those related to your health. Relationships with your doctors,...
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Medical Identity Theft

Education from the Federal Trade Commission

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From the Federal Trade Commission website: A thief may use your name or health insurance numbers to see a doctor, get prescription drugs, file claims with your insurance provider, or get other care. If the thief’s health...
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What is Identity Theft?

Consumer Information from the Federal Trade Commission

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From the FTC website: Identity theft affects millions of people each year. You can learn how to make protecting yourself from identity thieves part of your daily routine. Retrieved...
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Prepare

A Medical Decision and Doctor Consultation Resource

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From the Prepare website:PREPARE is a program that can help you: make medical decisions for yourself and others talk with your doctors get the medical care that is right for you
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