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Getting Started

Welcome to Backpack Health! Let’s create your account, set up your profile, and introduce you to your Backpack.

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Staying Prepared

Use Backpack to make sure your critical information is available when you need it most.

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Types of Health Information

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Adding Your Health Information

How to create Backpack health entries

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Editing Your Health Information

How to update and delete the health entries in your Backpack

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Tracking Symptoms

Quickly and easily monitor symptoms with Backpack

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Adding Contacts to Your Backpack

How to build and manage a list of personal and health care provider contacts.

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Attaching Provider Contacts to Health Info

Link your health care providers to what they treat you for and with.

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Adding & Editing a File, Photo, or Video

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Uploading and Organizing Your Files

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Writing & Editing Notes

Keep track of health details to reference and share.

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Writing & Sharing Comments

Add comments to your health info for reference and to share.

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Add a Flag to your Health Information

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Creating & Managing Backpack Profiles

Add Backpacks for those you love to manage their health in the same place you manage your own.

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Sharing & Removing Profile Access

Manage the stuff that matters, together.

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Share Cards Overview

Learn about our unique feature for sharing and translating the health info in your Backpack.

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Creating a Share Card

Sharing your information with the right people, in the right way.

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Adding Health Information to Share Cards

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Translating Health Info with Share Cards

How to translate and share your medical data in multiple languages

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Adding Contacts to Share Cards

Share emergency contacts, provider contacts, caregiver contacts and more along with your health info.

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When to Use a Share Card PDF or URL

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Using a Share Card URL

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Registering Medical Jewelry

How to link your Emergency Share Card to your medical ID accessories

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Creating Emergency Share Card Wallpaper

Make your critical health info accessible from your lock screen

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Share Cards and Your Phone's Emergency Features

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Getting Access to Your Medical Records

Why it's important, how to do it, and how to get them into your Backpack.

Written by Allison Goldman
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Connecting Patient Portals to Backpack

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Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

Extra security for your important information.

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Changing your Backpack Language

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Deleting Your Account

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Join a Group

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Signing Up with Backpack Groups

Creating an account to join a foundation on Backpack Health? Here’s how!

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Group Member Features

Learn about resources your group’s admins added just for you.

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Group Admin Roles

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Using Markdown Formatting

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Managing Your Group's Medical Terms

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Creating & Editing Group Resources

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Creating & Editing Group Share Card Content

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Adding and Managing Images

How to make your group feel more like home.

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Create, Edit or Delete a CTA Button

Give your Backpack Group members a call-to-action

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Account Security and Privacy

Your account and your data are in good hands.

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Backpack Health Policies

Providing and Withdrawing Consent

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Young People & Backpack Health

What to explain to your child about how their health data is managed.

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Release Notes

Periodic updates about Backpack Health and changes that have been made to it.

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Can Backpack Health give me medical advice?

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Who can use Backpack Health?

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I’m having trouble finding my conditions, procedures, or other health information. Can you help?

Helping you search and find the right information.

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How does Backpack Health protect user data?

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Marfan Health Fair 2019

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What devices and platforms do you support?

A list of supported devices, browsers and versions for iOS, Android and web.

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