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Links to the many free portals that have been developed and made available online by the U.S. government and other organizations for consumers and healthcare providers to obtain trusted information about a wide range of health related topics, e.g. nutrition, cancer, womens health, medication, patient safety, etc.

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Fair Health

http://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/

FAIR Health is a national independent, not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to bring transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information through comprehensive data products and consumer resources. Read More »

FoodSafety.Gov

FoodSafety.gov is the gateway to food safety information provided to the public by U.S. key government agencies, e.g. FDA, CDC, FSIS.

Homepage: 
http://www.foodsafety.gov/

Global Health Gateway

The Kaiser Family Foundation's Global Health Gateway serves as an online clearinghouse for the latest data and information on both the U.S. and global health.  It brings together original data sources, policy analysis, and research from the Foundation. It also provides the new daily news synthesis, features fact sheets, country-level data through Kaiser's Global Health Facts, and more.

Homepage: 
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/

Google Public Alerts

Google launched an open data platform in 2013 to share information on natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and floods. The system can be used by governments and other organizations to build localized crisis response systems. The system can be accessed on personal computers or mobile devices to find information such as the typhoon path, affected areas and nearby places of refuge. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.google.org/publicalerts

Health-EU Portal

The Health-EU Portal, the official public health portal of the European Union (EU), provides European citizens with easy access to comprehensive information on Public Health initiatives and programmes at the EU level. The portal is intended to help positively influence behaviour and promote the steady improvement of public health in the 27 EU Member States. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://ec.europa.eu/health/index_en.htm

HealthCare.Gov

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HealthCare.Gov is a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) web site providing a wide range of health information and tools for use by consumers. Read More »

HealthData.Gov

HealthData.Gov is a U.S. government web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). The goal is to unleash the power of private-sector innovators and entrepreneurs to utilize HHS data to create applications, products, services and features that help improve health and health care -- while also helping to create jobs of the future at the same time. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.healthdata.gov/

Healthfinder.Gov

Healthfinder.gov is a government web site providing information and tools to help citizens stay healthy. This web site or information portal is a free service provided by the National Health Information Center of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).

Homepage: 
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

HealthITxChange

The HealthITxChange is a free online community where health care and health IT professionals share best practices, lessons learned and have discussion about electronic health record (EHR) system implementation and use. Read More »

Homepage: 
https://www.healthitxchange.org/Pages/landing.aspx

Healthy.Net

Healthy.Net is a free, online information portal providing extensive information and educational materials about Alternative Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Health & Wellness resources and solutions.

Homepage: 
http://www.healthy.net/scr/Center.aspx?centerId=1

Hospital Safety Score

The Leapfrog Group is a highly respected patient safety organization. They’ve earned a reputation for carefully and thoughtfully assessing providers’ actual performance in quality and safety. Their mission statement:

To trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality and affordability of health care by: Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/

HospitalInspections.Org

Hospitalinspections.org is a website and/or information portal run by the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) that aims to make federal hospital inspection reports easier to access, search and analyze. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.hospitalinspections.org/

Medicare.Gov

Medicae.gov is a federal government website or portal managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It is a free online service for citizens to access personalized information regarding their Medicare benefits and services.

Homepage: 
https://mymedicare.gov/

MedLine

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MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE is the primary component of PubMed. Read More »

Medline Plus

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/