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Wall Street Journal - How Life's Details Help Patients
August 17, 2010 at 09:48:39 PM
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 - How Life's Details Help Patients
August 17, 2010 at 09:47:40 PM
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 an article on technology and health
April 15, 2010 at 06:52:43 PM
The Wall Street Journal recently featured TheCarrot at the top of the list of author Joseph De Avila's reviews of programs and gadgets that help people take charge of their health.

Check out the full article on the Wall Street Journal website:
How's Your Health? Technology is making it easier than ever to answer that question

TheCarrot.com supports National Workplace Wellness Week.
April 6, 2010 at 01:06:32 PM
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

For more information about TheCarrot.com’s Employee Wellness service, go to: www.TheCarrot.com.

TheCarrot.com Announces Launch of New Goal-Setting Health Programs and Other Content Updates
March 30, 2010 at 09:40:47 AM
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 at 09:21:30 PM
The St. Louis Globe Democrat evaluated several websites targeted to helping people lose weight and gave TheCarrot.com a "silver medal."

Here's an excerpt:

"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."

For the full article, click here.

Springwise gives TheCarrot a Shoutout
January 6, 2010 at 03:53:09 PM
In its Top 10 Business Ideas for 2010 article, Springwise.com lists TheCarrot.com in its writeup on Health Tracking Devices.

Check out the full article here:
Top 10 Business Ideas for 2010

eHow Features TheCarrot!
January 6, 2010 at 03:48:06 PM
"Using TheCarrot.com you can track your calories, sleep patterns, weight, body measurements, medicine, pain, energy level, cholesterol, pregnancy, and so much more! And it's so easy!"

See the full post at:
How to Track Your Life, Calories, and Weight Loss

Wall Street Journal Features TheCarrot!
December 22, 2009 at 02:51:59 PM
December 21, 2009: The Wall Street Journal featured TheCarrot.com in its article on smart phone health tracking applications.

Here's an excerpt:

"Even if consumers record their health information for only a couple weeks, it's still valuable, says Douglas Trauner, founder of TheCarrot.com. "This is the first step to preventive care," he says. Mr. Trauner released TheCarrot.com, based in Corte Madera, Calif., in November 2008. It offers more than 30 free trackers for blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and other health indicators. Users update the trackers through the Web site or with an iPhone. A BlackBerry version is in the works. The company is getting ready to launch a premium version of TheCarrot that give users additional tools, such as charting functionality, to monitor health and fitness goals for $4.99 a month."

Check out the full article at the Wall Street Journal website:

"Your iPhone Just Called: Your Blood-Sugar Is High"



Health 2.0 Features TheCarrot in their User Challenge!
October 21, 2009 at 11:52:16 AM
TheCarrot was a star of the recent Health 2.0 User Challenge. Watch the video here!

Shape Magazine Calls TheCarrot "Worth a Click"!
October 5, 2009 at 01:26:59 PM
The October, 2009 issue of Shape Magazine had a great writeup about TheCarrot:

"There are countless web sites that can monitor your workouts and diet, but TheCarrot.com goes one step further. If it affects your health at all—exercise, what you eat, your mood, or sleep patterns—this free site lets you track it and run detailed trend reports. You'll see that you gained weight during the weeks you slept for only five hours a night or that your energy dipped when you skipped breakfast. See the connections between your habits and you can identify the little changes that will have a big impact."

Conceive Magazine Loves TheCarrot!
August 11, 2009 at 02:58:21 PM
TheCarrot just got a huge writeup in Conceive Magazine! Download the article here.

Upgraded iPhone App 2.0 Offers Most Comprehensive Health, Nutrition, Fitness & Lifestyle Tracking
August 6, 2009 at 05:09:12 PM
SAN FRANCISCO--August 6, 2009--TheCarrot.com, the leading provider of life-management tracking and reporting, announced today that a significant upgrade to its popular iPhone application (app) is now available. TheCarrot.com offers more than 30 trackers, the broadest range of health and lifestyle trackers available on a single iPhone app, and the 2.0 application provides a more intuitive and enjoyable experience combined with improved functionality. Users can now better track an ever-expanding array of daily activities such as food intake and workouts as well as better manage health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma.

The free upgraded iPhone app provides real-time, on-the-go access to all tracker histories, photos and journal entries, and the ability to search for nutritional information, medications, symptoms and more. Information can be entered in a variety of formats, depending on user preference. Individuals who track their exercise patterns, for example, can choose to record the date, time, duration, location, distance and/or perceived exertion with accompanying photos. People tracking what they eat now have instant access to nutritional information on more than 20,000 foods.

“We’re excited to bring users the newest version of TheCarrot.com’s iPhone app, designed to empower consumers who want to take charge of their health and well-being,” said Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Healthcare Analytic Services, creator of TheCarrot.com. “The benefits of ongoing monitoring to encourage healthy behavior have long been recognized, but until now there wasn’t a mobile, one-stop option for all areas of interest. We are proud that TheCarrot.com is helping transform lives.”

TheCarrot.com also offers users the unique ability to correlate tracked items into a personalized report to determine how one behavior impacts others, such as: How does mood impact food intake? Do certain foods trigger headaches? Does the timing of a medication affect sleep or blood pressure? Identifying these trends and triggers can motivate users to proactively change habits and behaviors. The robust reporting feature also enables users to share this information with physicians, nutritionists, trainers, coaches and other professionals.

TheCarrot.com 2.0 app is available for free from Apple’s App Store. The app can be used with an iPhone (OS 2.0 or later) and iPod Touch.

TheCarrot.com Introduces Swine Flu Tracker to Help Identify People Who May Be at Risk
May 6, 2009 at 05:59:20 PM
SAN FRANCISCO--May 6, 2009--TheCarrot.com, the leading provider of health and life-management tracking and reporting services, has launched a free iPhone and Web H1N1 (Swine Flu) tracker that enables people with flu-like symptoms to keep a real-time, on-the-go record—with photos—of their activities, social encounters and symptoms. If tests confirm
that they have contracted the Swine Flu virus, the contact information captured by the tracker will enable quick notification of people who may have been exposed to the disease to speed testing and needed treatment.

“With TheCarrot.com Swine Flu tracker, we hope our users will be able to help clinicians, epidemiologists and other researchers better understand transmission of the disease, which will help prevention efforts,” states Douglas Trauner, CEO and Founder of Health Analytic Services, Inc., the producer of TheCarrot.com.

TheCarrot.com trackers, which also include a seasonal flu tracker, provide an unmatched breadth of health, fitness and lifestyle monitoring options to empower people to take charge of their health.

TheCarrot.com’s unique reporting tool can correlate various tracked behaviors to provide insights into how one aspect of behavior affects others. These reports can be shared with physicians, nutritionists, trainers and other professionals.

Forbes.com features TheCarrot.com
May 6, 2009 at 01:47:39 PM



People are talking about TheCarrot!
April 29, 2009 at 08:25:52 AM
Check out the great things people are saying about TheCarrot!

Well Woman Blog—April 15, 2009: "Online Health Tool Empowers Women to Take Control of Their Health"

Takes on Tech—March 5, 2009: "TheCarrot.com Helps Users Track Health Info"

Swell Pregnancy Guide—June 8, 2009: "Track your Pregnancy Online"

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—Project HealthDesign "Innovative Idea"

Sports Technology Review—May 27, 2009: "Track Your Life with TheCarrot.com"

Forbes.com: BreakOut!—A great video story on TheCarrot.com and how our tracking services can help make you healthier and happier.

Vital Juice—April 28, 2009: "You Grow, Girl: Get to the root of your stubborn health obstacles"

Next Nine Months—April 27, 2009: "Online Pregnancy Tracker Empowers Women to Take Control of Their Health"

Blisstree—April 13, 2009: "Have you checked out TheCarrot yet?"

Springwise—March 26, 2009: "Health tracker provides broad view of wellness"

New Trackers Empower Women of All Ages to Take Control of Their Lives and Bodies
April 6, 2009 at 02:40:45 PM
SAN FRANCISCO--Apr 6, 2009--TheCarrot.com, the leading provider of life-management tracking and reporting, announced today at the Healthcare Information & Management Systems (HIMSS) 2009 Conference the release of a suite of trackers that address the changing life needs of women. These trackers—Menstrual Cycle, Ovulation, Pregnancy and Menopause—join TheCarrot.com's other free online and iPhone trackers that include exercise, food, medications, mood, disease management and much more.

“As an OB/GYN provider, it is extremely helpful to have accurate data from a patient as to when her problems began and how they have progressed,” says Valerie Sorkin-Wells, M.D., a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) from the Arizona Wellness Center for Women in Phoenix. “For example, using TheCarrot.com's women's health trackers is an objective way for a woman to monitor her menstrual pattern so that she not only becomes comfortable with what is her norm, but to also identify disruptive patterns that could be the first sign of concern.“

The Women's Health trackers allow women to monitor everything from symptoms to moods to weight as they navigate important life phases like trying to get pregnant or managing menopause.

“Women using TheCarrot.com expressed a strong need for trackers that can help them understand the bigger picture of what's going on with their bodies,” states Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Health Analytic Services, Inc., the producer of TheCarrot.com. “Not only do these trackers help women easily manage their everyday health, they also support the ability to take control of all aspects of their life that influence health—from home life to career.”

TheCarrot's tracking service goes beyond the basic journaling functionality of most other online tools. Users can run personalized, easy-to-read reports based on their tracking data that clearly show trends and cause-and-effect relationships among the areas they are tracking; women can use that information to make changes in the right areas to improve their health and well-being.

To access the Menstrual Cycle, Ovulation, Pregnancy, or Menopause trackers, or to view other popular health and life management trackers for the iPhone or Web, visit www.TheCarrot.com.

Use of TheCarrot.com’s Hypertension Tracker Soars 30% During Heart Month
March 5, 2009 at 01:37:55 PM
SAN FRANCISCO--March 5, 2009--TheCarrot.com, the leading provider of life-management tracking and reporting, announced today that use of its hypertension tracker, which monitors blood pressure and heart rate, increased 30% during Heart Month in February 2009. This jump demonstrates that TheCarrot.com’s heart-related trackers—including stand-alone blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol trackers—are helping Americans who increasingly want to take greater control of their heart health. TheCarrot.com’s free health and life management trackers can be accessed on the Web or downloaded from the iPhone app store.

The American Heart Association, American Society of Hypertension and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association recommend routine at-home blood pressure monitoring for people with high blood pressure. TheCarrot.com’s convenient, fun and easy-to-use tools keep track of blood pressure trends, and it is the only site that can correlate these results with other behaviors such as medication use, exercise, salt and fat intake, as well as stress levels to provide insights on behavior changes that can reduce heart-related problems.

Self-monitoring is increasingly being recognized as a vital component in encouraging healthier habits. “Becoming more active in their own care may also motivate patients to take other measures to lower their blood pressure, such as increasing physical activity, reducing salt and following a healthy dietary pattern,” said Daniel W. Jones, M.D., past president of the American Heart Association and vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

The Mayo Clinic also encourages self-monitoring, “Taking your own blood pressure measurements has been shown to result in better blood pressure control and greater success meeting blood pressure targets. You gain a stronger sense of responsibility for your health, and you may be even more motivated to control your blood pressure with an improved diet, physical activity and proper medication use.” Additionally, “home monitoring may cut down on the number of visits you need to make to your doctor or clinic” as well as “help you and your health care team make decisions about your ongoing treatment strategy.”

“TheCarrot.com’s unique reporting capability can integrate the broadest range of health and lifestyle trackers available at a single site,” explained Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Health Analytic Services, creator of The Carrot.com. “Armed with this information, empowered consumers can more easily stay engaged in transforming their lifestyles to optimize their health and well-being.”

TheCarrot.com releases new health, fitness and lifestyle trackers monthly in response to user requests.


User Demand Drives Development of TheCarrot.com Trackers for New Year’s Resolutions
December 30, 2008 at 02:22:06 PM
San Francisco—Dec. 30, 2008— TheCarrot.com, the leading provider of life-management tracking and reporting, announced today great news for those who make New Year’s resolutions. Users report that TheCarrot.com’s free, real-time trackers available on the iPhone and web and unique reporting capabilities make it easy to adopt and sustain healthier habits.

More than just a tracker – TheCarrot.com is about life management
Spanning health, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, job satisfaction and disease management, existing trackers already address many of the most popular New Year’s resolutions such as quitting smoking, losing weight, exercising and spending more time with family.

Going beyond online recording of what you eat or when you exercise,
The Carrot.com allows you to generate reports to see trends that help identify – for example - those mood triggers that cause you to smoke or overeat. Knowing these trends makes it easier to eliminate harmful habits or replace them with good ones.

If spending more time with family is your goal, reporting can reveal –
for example – time spent watching TV you don’t actually enjoy. Use those pockets of time to enhance the quality and quantity of family time.

The scope and number of trackers is constantly expanding, driven by users who start to see trends in how one aspect of life affects another and the cumulative impact on their health and well-being. Reporting can be done across all trackers, making TheCarrot.com the only true life-management tool.


With a couple of clicks, a user can capture daily activities and associated photos to track and measure against short- and long-term goals. Unique, easy-to-create and read reports allow tracking of trends and correlations between actions and outcomes – across all aspects of life – for never-before-seen insights into how what we do impacts our lives.

“Users of TheCarrot.com typically start with a single goal – for example – managing their weight,” explains Douglas Trauner, CEO and founder of Health Analytic Services, Inc., the producer of TheCarrot.com. “As users take advantage of the trend reporting and learn more about themselves, they begin to incorporate additional trackers to see how things like sleep and job satisfaction have a profound affect on their ability to manage their weight.”

User requests strongly influence the addition of new trackers. To access a full list of trackers, visit TheCarrot.com List of Trackers or to submit a tracker suggestion, visit the Tracker Suggestions page.



TheCarrot.com Launches Mobile Health and Wellness Tracking Application on Apple App Store
December 3, 2008 at 12:48:06 PM
Corte Madera, CA. -- Dec. 3, 2008 -- Health Analytic Services today announced its TheCarrot application for tracking health, nutrition, and fitness information on iPhone and iPod touch is now available from the Apple App Store. The application provides mobile access to TheCarrot.com's useful life tracking site to help enhance a user’s well-being.

“Powerful wireless connectivity and an innovative Multi-Touch user interface has enabled us to create the perfect companion to our online tracking service for supporting health & happiness,” said Douglas Trauner, founder and CEO of Health Analytic Services. “iPhone and iPod touch users of TheCarrot.com can now keep track of their life no matter where they are, which means they can monitor their health and wellness as never before.”

TheCarrot application for iPhone and iPod touch helps users easily track a comprehensive range of items such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, weight, cholesterol, running, swimming, and much more. This application joins TheCarrot.com's Web-based tracking service.

Features of TheCarrot.com iPhone application include:
• Single app for comprehensive tracking of a multitude of health, nutrition, and fitness categories
• Easy-to-use interface for speedy data entry
• one click integration of photos into tracking entries

TheCarrot.com application is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone or iPod touch

“Best New Application” at Health 2.0 Conference
October 24, 2008 at 06:19:40 PM
TheCarrot.com was voted “Best New Application” at the Health 2.0 Conference on October 22-23, 2008 in San Francisco.

The Conference connected over 900 academics, entrepreneurs, and other innovative thinkers to share products and experiences related to User-Generated Healthcare.

We can’t think of a better group to get a stamp of approval from. Thanks guys.

More info: http://www.health2con.com

TheCarrot is pleased to announce we are now open to the public
August 22, 2008 at 10:43:42 PM
With the extensive testing of a dedicated team, TheCarrot.com is now open for registration to the general public.

Customer feedback continues to be strong
July 12, 2008 at 11:43:42 AM
We are delighted to report that the feedback from our beta users has been very strong with many great ideas to help improve the site.



TheCarrot.com goes Beta
April 15, 2008 at 12:00:00 AM
TheCarrot.com is pleased to announce that after extensive input from professionals and individuals the site will be entering beta testing on May 1st.



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