I was able to have a very quick but nice chat with Maria over at MarketIntelNow.com. She is composing a series of articles regarding PHR’s (Personal Health-care Records) and some of the new innovators in the field.

We spoke on many things such as SugarStats’ stance on PHR’s, our business model and our progress so far. Please forgive the typing errors as it was a bit rushed

http://marketintellnow.blogspot.com/2007/07/spotlight-report-personal-health_15.html

SugarStats.com Launched! – Simple Blood Sugar Tracking. Online

We’re happy to announce we’re launching our blood sugar tracking and diabetes management website, SugarStats.com, to the online diabetic community.

Check out our shiny press release

With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep things under control.

We built SugarStats to be simple and easy to use. You input and access your info via a web browser for easy access no matter where you are. So whether at home, on the road or in the office, you’re connected. You can then easily share your stats with your family, friends or health-care professional.

With SugarStats you will be able to:

• Bring your readings online. Get rid of that pen & paper log!
• Track & manage meds, foods/carbs and physical activity
• Drill down into specific time frames to get a clear overview
• Visualize your progress with easy to read graphs and trends
• Share your statistics with your family, friends or doctor
• Access your info from any modern web browsers
• Have a clear and easy-to-use interface to view your stats

Sign up Free – Takes less than 30 seconds

To create your free account simply go to:

http://manage.sugarstats.com/subscriptions

For more info on SugarStats go to http://www.sugarstats.com
or
Take a screenshot tour of at http://www.sugarstats.com/tour

Questions, Inquiry or Support

Any questions or troubles just email us at support@sugarstats.com
Need help? Drop by the Help Wiki: http://wiki.sugarstats.com/

Privacy Policy: http://manage.sugarstats.com/ToS.html#pp
Terms of Service: http://manage.sugarstats.com/ToS.html

We’ve been getting some great feedback recently and I must say it is great to hear. I know using SugarStats personally has made a huge difference in my life but hearing it from other people really confirms how it was all worth In a few weeks of simple tracking and bringing his awareness to it his average dropped 10%!

Manny from TuDiabetes.com has been using it himself for only a few weeks and posted a review with some great things to say, he even made a video!

If you don’t see the video here is a direct link to it on YouTube

If any of you have experiences or feedback of SugarStats you’d like to share then we’d love to hear it, send it over to info@sugarstats.com

We’re pretty excited over here as we’ll be shortly be launching SugarStats to the public. As a thank you to the community and those who have wanted to help with the BETA testing we’re going to offering something special for the next 6 days:

Free? Premium? Beta? Huh?

The free account in SugarStats includes pretty much all of the features we’ve spent the last year building up. We want to make it as widely available to the Diabetes community as possible. Our goal is to keep as much of the feature set included in the free plan now and in the future.

At launch we’ll also be introducing a Premium accounts upon launch for those wanting more for a low monthly/yearly cost. This plan includes everything the free plan has but adds a few more features (such as food intake and physical activity tracking) and convenience benefits such as being ad free and having secure SSL encryption.

Beta accounts are exactly the same as premium accounts, but as you’ll see below, include a little something special

Big thanks to all our BETA testers

Along the same lines as above, as a token of our appreciation in helping test and polish SugarStats, all current Beta testers will get all premium features free… Forever. This means all current premium features and all future features you’ll get free.

Thank you to the early adopters

Let me at it!!

Just go to:

http://manage.sugarstats.com/users/new

and fill in your info. We’ve made the validation string the same for everyone and it should be filled in when you go there. If it isn’t, type in: aloha. Complete the sign up form and you’re in.

Now whenever you want to login just go to:

http://manage.sugarstats.com/

Spread the word

This offer is open to every and anyone. Tell your friends, family, doctor, dogs, cats etc. Email it, digg it, share it, whatever (click the “share this” button below). Tell any diabetics you know might want to track their Sugars online, any one you know who might be interested. They are all welcome. Enjoy!

One of the main things when sharing info is having different mediums to do it with. We’ve always had printing of pages in SugarStats to compliment sharing your stats with others via TrustedVue, now we’ve made it much better.

Via Print CSS we’ve streamlined and designed the new prints to cut out as much white space as possible while still getting the stats you need there in a clear and easy to read manner.

All the elements of the webpage that don’t need to be printed disappear (such as the sidebar and headers). You can simply print any page as it is and get a clean and clear print.

You can take a look for yourself, just make a print! If you want to save ink you can also do a “Print Preview” directly from your browser (via the file menu and print boxes) to see it.

We’ve just send out invites to a few more hundred of you who signed up to the mailing list. We just wanted to give a big thanks to you all and hope you get as much out of SugarStats as we do.

Of course all of your feedback (good or bad) is welcome, we’re always working to make the system better. Feel free to join the forum: forum.sugarstats.com or email us at support@sugarstats.com

If you just found us or just signed up to the mailinglist don’t fear, we’re still collecting emails and when we’re ready we’ll send out more invites. Stay tuned!!

TrustedVue

We’re introducing TrustedVue today, a feature that allows you to share your statistics with your family, friends, doctor or whoever you wish.

Sharing your statistics and progress is just as important as keeping track of them, especially in regards to your health-care professional.

How it works

With TrustedVue you create accounts for the people you trust to view your information. They will then be notified via email and be able to login. Simply click on the main “Lists & Settings” tab and in the subnavigation you’ll see a new “TrustedVue Login List” link.

The cool thing (we think ) is that when they login, they will be able to view and interact within SugarStats just as you do but in a “read-only” mode. Which means they won’t be able to add, edit or delete anything.

How it looks for you

How it looks for a TrustedVue account

TrustedVue Messaging

We’ve also added basis (emphasis on basic… For now ) messaging between you and the people you let view your account. This is a private, one-to-one communication. Meaning you will see all the messages between various TrustedVue accounts but they will only be able to see messages sent to you by them or sent to them by you.

You can start a new message in the message tab, or you can relate a message to a specific day (we’re adding message related to specific timeframes soon) by creating the message on a specific day (at the bottom of the day page.)

Messaging Permissions
Permissions are simple: You get to edit/delete any message you like and TrustedVue accounts under you can only edit/delete those created by them. It’s no GMail and wasn’t meant to be, but its simple and we want to keep it that way .

Blood Glucose Meter Export Uploads

Everyday you use your glucose meter, it is vital to your health at this point. This meter is also where a large chunk of your glucose reading past is held, wouldn’t it be great to get that into sugarstats for analysis?

One of the new features we’re rolling out to our BETA testers is meter reading uploads. This has been a very popular request and we’ve been trying to get something in the works for everyone to try.

We’ve started with OneTouch as they are one of the biggest in the glucose meter industry and since their software makes it easy to export your glucose readings to a file.

How will it work?

This feature has less to do with the actual OneTouch meter you use and more about the OneTouch Diabetes Management Software that comes with the meter.

In case you don’t know about this, you can find all the info about it here: OneTouch Diabetes Management Software

Also, in order to connect the meter to your computer (Unfortunately it is Windows/PC only at the moment) you’ll need to get the USB or Serial connector cable which you can get from OneTouch or another source.

Once you have the software setup and the meter working with it, your readings should be in sync with the OneTouch software. To get this into SugarStats, you simply export your readings in .CSV format to a file on your desktop. It is this file you can upload to SugarStats and get all your past sugar readings in.

Supported OneTouch Meters

Unfortunately, not ever glucose meter manufacturer uses the same software or exports in the same format for that matter. So we need to go through each one, one at a time, to see if it is possible to extract from their export files. We’re lucky OneTouch made this easy.

According to OneTouch:

“All OneTouch® Meters with data ports are compatible with v2.3.1”

All OneTouch meters that are supported by the OneTouch Diabetes Management Software version 2.3.1 and above is supported. So our only requirement is that you have the latest update of the OneTouch Diabetes Management Software.

Future Meter Support (or if you’re meter isn’t supported)

We’d love to continue adding support for more meters, this just takes development time. If you’re meter isn’t supported and would like to help, feel free to send us an email with the details and attach an export from your meter software. Send it to support at sugarstats.com