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Now Supporting Withings Scales & Blood Pressure Devices
December 1, 2011

Dec. 1, 2011 -- TheCarrot.com announced today that it now supports third-party devices with its integration to Withings Inc.'s Body Scale and Blood Pressure Monitor systems.

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"TheCarrot.com is pleased to support a secure integration with the Withings service for integrated weight and blood pressure measures," says Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Health Analytic Services, Inc., the producer of TheCarrot.com. "Integrating with Withings allows our users to more easily manage their health for personal use or to coordinate results with their family members or health care providers."

"We are pleased to be working with TheCarrot.com and support their self-management programs targeted to such important health issues as diabetes, smoking cessation and heart health," says Cedric Hutchings, CEO of Withings. "We believe that TheCarrot's services are an excellent complement to our devices for people who are trying to control their weight or blood pressure."

Complete instructions on how to link Withings devices with an individual's TheCarrot.com account are available now at TheCarrot - Withings..





Social Health Networking Now Available!
July 13, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TheCarrot announced today the availability of social networking capabilities for its users to share their personal health information with other individuals, online communities and their health care providers. Now users of TheCarrot can have the best of both worlds, strict privacy control and the benefits of collaboration.

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With TheCarrot, users can now share their health information to get the social & clinical support they need to achieve their health goals. Users can choose what information to share and who can see it. For example, a user can choose to participate in TheCarrot's online diabetes community and share glucose levels with other participants. Patients can share symptoms and clinical details with their physicians, and daily exercise for their employer's wellness competition. TheCarrot provides full transparency and gives users complete control over their own privacy settings and the sharing of any personal health information.


TheCarrot's Health Collaboration Platform gives health and wellness professionals the tools they need to monitor and manage their clients' health results and outcomes. Whether it's keeping track of post-surgery patients for adverse readmission events, compliance with physical therapy regimens, or medical research, TheCarrot's Health Collaboration Platform allows health professionals to prescribe health programs, manage patient participation, and view their progress.


"We're using TheCarrot to collaborate with teenagers with obesity and depression to help them follow through with a personal self-management plan," said Hali Hammer, MD, Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine, UC San Francisco School of Medicine. "TheCarrot has made it easy for us to manage our patients' progress and participation in their treatment plans in real time."


"We're excited to allow our members to collaborate about their health in new and meaningful ways with their health care team," said Douglas Trauner, CEO of Health Analytic Services, Inc. "Using TheCarrot, health care providers, clinics, pharmacies, and insurance companies can quickly and easily offer health management services such as readmission reduction programs or health coaching services for their patients or members."


About Health Analytic Services, Inc.


Health Analytic Services, Inc. creates solutions that enable individuals to take charge of their health and well-being. The company's award winning product, TheCarrot.com, provides intuitive, real-time web and smartphone applications across a range of health objectives such as Physical Fitness, Heart Health, Diabetes, Smoking Cessation, and Weight Management. Individuals can track and manage their progress for thousands of health measures and can keep their information private, or share with others including care providers, family members or individuals within TheCarrot's online communities. TheCarrot's Health Collaboration Platform allows healthcare providers, employers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and research organizations to easily create, publish, and manage public or private collaborative health topics for their patients or members.




Smoking Cessation Program Now Available!
January 20, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TheCarrot.com, a leading provider of online and mobile consumer health engagement programs, announced the immediate availability of its new Quit Smoking Program. Drawing on the expertise of the University of California at San Francisco's Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, the action-based program combines proven behavior modification methodology with TheCarrot.com's award-winning online and mobile health platform.

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"We're excited to offer our customers an innovative approach to Quit Smoking," says Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Health Analytic Services, Inc., the producer of TheCarrot.com. "By combining the nationally-recognized methodology of The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center with TheCarrot.com's easy-to-use online and iPhone applications, we're able to offer our customers a convenient tool to help them stop smoking."


With TheCarrot.com's Quit Smoking Program, smokers can identify and monitor the reasons they want to quit smoking, behaviors that trigger a desire for a cigarette, their cravings, medications and smoking replacements. For example, with TheCarrot.com's free iPhone App, program users can record their cravings and be reminded of their reasons to quit as easily as reaching for a pack of cigarettes.  


Users can also participate in TheCarrot.com's online community of others who are quitting smoking to share suggestions, tips, and comments in a secure online forum.


"The Smoking Cessation Leadership Program is dedicated to helping smokers quit and to helping increase the ways smokers can quit," said Steve Schroeder, Executive Director, University of California San Francisco's Smoking Cessation Leadership Program. "We're excited to help TheCarrot.com launch their online and mobile program as another way to reach additional groups of smokers."


TheCarrot.com's Quit Smoking Program is the first of many self-management programs targeted to specific health topics and conditions that the company will launch in 2011. Quit Smoking is available now for all registered users at TheCarrot.com at: https://TheCarrot.com/programs/smoking


About The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center


The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) is a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to increase smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit. The Center is also sponsored by The American Legacy Foundation and creates partnerships for results with a variety of groups and institutions to develop and implement action plans around smoking cessation. Partnerships with dental hygienists, nurses, pharmacists, emergency physicians, hospitals, labor unions, family physicians, the Veterans Health Administration and myriad other groups all lead toward the same goal: saving lives by increasing cessation rates and cessation interventions.


About Health Analytic Services, Inc.


Health Analytic Services, Inc. creates solutions that enable individuals to take charge of their health and well-being. The company's premier product, TheCarrot.com, provides intuitive, real-time web and iPhone applications to help consumers manage every aspect of their lives and improve their health. Voted at Health 2.0 as a "Best New Application," TheCarrot.com offers a wide range of easy-to-use, secure life-management trackers relating to a variety of topics including health, fitness, nutrition, medications, mood, sleep, job satisfaction and disease management.  TheCarrot.com's ever-expanding, user-driven program development supports an engaged community in proactively participating in, taking control of, and managing their life and health. 



TheCarrot Goes to Washington
December 15, 2010

WASHINGTON DC--December 3, 2010

Douglas Trauner (CEO and Founder of HAS), was a panelist in "Personal Health Records -- Understanding the Evolving Landscape," a Congressionally-mandated report on privacy and security requirements for non-Covered Entities for the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

The Roundtable included four panels of prominent researchers, legal scholars, and representatives of consumer, patient, and industry organizations. It addressed the current state and evolving nature of PHRs and related technologies (including mobile technologies and social networking), consumer and industry expectations and attitudes toward privacy and security practices, and the pros and cons of different approaches to the requirements that should apply to non-CE PHRs and related technologies.

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Wall Street Journal - How Life's Details Help Patients
August 17, 2010

The Wall Street Journal features TheCarrot.com. Personal Observations Provide Doctors With New Information to Aid in Treatments.
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Wall Street Journal features TheCarrot in technology & health
April 15, 2010

"Keeping track of your health keeps getting easier. New gadgets and online tools are giving people a clearer picture not only of how active they are during the day, but also how well they sleep at night. Web sites let users record all kinds of health-related information and see it analyzed over time. Or remind you when you're due for a medical test. And there are new sites and mobile applications for people with conditions like asthma or diabetes that require regular monitoring and sharing information with doctors. Here's a sampling of some of the newest ways people can measure and manage their health."


"TheCarrot.com acts as an online journal that people can use to track more than 30 health-related aspects of their lives. Users can input their information directly on the Web site or through an iPhone application. The information can then be viewed in reports that track a single factor, like your weight, or several factors together, so you can see, for instance, how your exercise and sleep are affecting your mood. Users can print reports to share with doctors."




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TheCarrot.com supports National Workplace Wellness Week.
April 6, 2010

TheCarrot.com is a proud supporter of National Workplace Wellness Week, April 4-10, 2010, by encouraging businesses to support their employees’ health and wellness through offering programs that promote health.



Initiated by the American Heart Association (AHA) and introduced by Reps. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) and Charles Boustany (R-LA), the full U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution that designates the first full week of April as "National Workplace Wellness Week." During this week, employers across the country are encouraged to invest in the health of their employees by creating worksite health promotion programs, or by sharing their worksite wellness experiences with other employers. The resolution is endorsed by AHA, Chamber of Commerce, Partnership for Prevention, and many other groups concerned about the health and wellness of American employees.


"Offering a workplace wellness program is the first step towards building a culture of health. There's no doubt that well designed programs result in cost savings across the board while creating a healthier workforce," says Kara Connors, MPH, Vice President of Health Programs for TheCarrot.com. "It's been proven that employer spending on health promotion and disease prevention is a wise business investment."


Data indicate that workplace health programs have achieved a rate of return on investment ranging from $3 to $15 for each dollar invested with savings realized within 12 to 18 months. And this is good news for employers, since nearly 60 percent of employers' after-tax profits are spent on corporate health benefits, and an estimated 25-30 percent of companies' medical costs per year are spent on employees with excess health risk.


"Companies are becoming smarter and more efficient in their delivery of wellness programs," reports Connors. "We believe TheCarrot.com offers an interactive and responsive solution for individuals to achieve health goals and follow through on their progress. Our growing number of health programs can be used as a 'stand alone' service, or complement and enhance programs that are already in place."


For more information on National Workplace Wellness Week, go to the American Heart Association website: www.americanheart.org



TheCarrot.com Announces Goal-Setting Health Programs
March 30, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- TheCarrot.com, the leading provider of life-management tracking and reporting, announced today the introduction of TheCarrot Premium to boost the tracking experience with goal-setting features and enhanced tools to help users achieve optimum health. TheCarrot has also made major updates to its free service.


"We created our new Premium programs to respond to our user's requests for more targeted programs around weight loss, fitness and hypertension management," says Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Health Analytic Services, Inc., the producer of TheCarrot.com. "Research has proven that the process of tracking and recording data—food, workouts, moods, and so on—reinforces good behaviors. Our new tools help users identify problem habits so they can make positive changes that really stick."



The Premium programs offer advanced tracking capabilities, goal-setting features, and enhanced analytics to help users lose weight, get fit, and manage hypertension.


Premium program features:



  • Dashboards for easy, highly visual access to all user data and tools

  • Goal-setting capabilities

  • Quick-look graphs & charts for easy visualization of progress toward goals

  • Enhanced analytics

  • Simple, interactive overviews to see patterns and challenges related to health

  • Instant access to more than 30 health and lifestyle Trackers

  • iPhone app to record and manage information on the go.


TheCarrot.com is currently offering a 14-day free trial of their Premium service for new and current users; after the free trial expires, the service is just $4.99 per month.



TheCarrot wins "Silver Medal" from St. Louis Globe Democrat
March 3, 2010

The St. Louis Globe Democrat evaluated several websites targeted to helping people lose weight and gave TheCarrot.com a "silver medal."

"Want to go further? TheCarrot.com lets you track even more information. Diet, medication, smoking, cholesterol, sleep quality, diabetes…you can calculate an amazing amount of data on yourself with little to no effort. As long as you commit yourself to checking in once a day, this site can be a one-stop-shop to get a handle on a wide array of the health issues that you’re most interested in."

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Springwise gives TheCarrot a Shoutout
January 6, 2010

In its Top 10 Business Ideas for 2010 article, Springwise.com lists TheCarrot.com in its writeup on Health Tracking Devices.


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