Personal electronic health records

For many people, getting started with Total Recall means taking charge of their personal health information. Here are a few options for you to check out:

• Google Health lets your store your health data online. You can import data from some partner hospitals and pharmacies.
• Microsoft HealthVault also lets you store your health data online. A number of devices can upload data to your account. Some third party sites and applications use HealthVault for storage.
• Minerva Health Manager stores your health records on your PC, and also on a USB stick to share with a hospital, new doctor, etc.
• Polka's My Health has a web-based interface that synchronizes with SmartPhones

The Data Liberation Front

Previously, I noted that LifeStream helps you get back your captive data from sites like facebook and twitter. Now there is a movement inside google to help people get their data, aptly named the Data Liberation Front. Viva the liberation!

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.  We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product.  We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products.  This is our mission statement:

Users should be able to control the data they store inany of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier for them to move data in and out.