Physical Activity Promotion
The DPS Health Physical Activity Promotion platform helps researchers
and intervention providers more efficiently and effectively monitor physical activity and include physical activity promotion in their interventions. From our inception, DPS Health has been dedicated to helping clinicians promote physical activity and continues to develop new, distinctive web tools and components that can be incorporated in healthy lifestyle interventions.

Since physical activity is a key element in many lifestyle interventions, DPS Health developed the Physical Activity Promotion platform using the Behavior Change Suite™ as a foundation. It combines our proprietary technology with the business rules, logic and content needed to support the complex processes of clinically-linked behavior change and self-management interventions for physical activity promotion.

Sample of Existing Applications Built by DPS Health

Physical Activity Prescription
DPS Health created the Physical Activity Prescription™ (PARx) to show demonstratively how the logic and rules of a physical activity intervention might work in a clinical or consumer-based environment. The PARx is an example of how an intervention is integrated with a clinical practice to provide automated support for patients.

The PARx sample application functions like a human coach through a personalized and experiential approach based on the user’s readiness to change, unique characteristics, and success in meeting their specific physical activity goals. It shows how the user experience can be seamlessly integrated with healthcare provider support. This interactive motivational program is unlike any existing, traditional content-based educational approaches or online activity tracking methods.

PARx Tracking Grid


PARx Results Graph


Sample of Existing Customer Applications
DPS Health has created user self-management support programs with client partners built upon the Physical Activity Promotion platform and incorporating elements from PARx, including:

Get Fit, Get Right
Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation integrated DPS Health technology to create their teen-focused Get Fit, Get Right website. The online program is designed to reduce obesity in teens and prevent type 2 diabetes and weight-related conditions such as blindness, amputation, renal failure, hypertension
and heart disease.

Get Fit, Get Right helps the teen user set physical activity goals, make and commit to a plan, and monitor their own progress. Participants learn to adopt healthier behaviors through real-life video diaries, and real world advice from nutrition, fitness and medical experts. Teens also network with others to share personal challenges and successes.

Get Fit, Get Right Task List


Get Fit, Get Right Planning Grid


Research Triangle Institute
The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) utilized the Physical Activity Promotion platform to enhance the functionality of their Personal Health Record. Working with DPS Health, RTI was able to speed development time and offer advanced device integration functionality in its own online tool.

Researcher Services: Physical Activity Data Warehouse
The Physical Activity Data Warehouse (PADW) is an online service that enables physical activity research subjects to upload their accelerometer readings directly to a secure database from their home or office computer. Researchers only need to download the accumulated participant files through the PADW to immediately begin processing the physical activity measurements from all study subjects.

PADW Data Output Example


Sample Application: Lifecorder Online
Lifecorder Online is a new interactive program from DPS Health being developed in conjunction with physical activity monitor manufacturer, the Suzuken company. This new web application integrates the Suzuken Kenz Lifecorder accelerometers with an online application to extend the field of physical activity research and physical activity promotion.

This online application demonstrates how the Physical Activity Promotion platform offers researchers and intervention designers the opportunity to incorporate accelerometer information directly into their interventions. Another key benefit is that those wearing the device will be able to see their activity patterns, view progress against goals and understand their own behavior in contrast to the “black box” setting generally used in research applications.

Physical Activity Monitoring for Interventions and Researchers
From our inception, DPS Health has been dedicated to promoting physical activity and has developed distinctive online applications to meet this goal. As part of our commitment, we have maintained a long-time relationship with Suzuken, a well-respected manufacturer of research quality accelerometers.
We have worked with Suzuken to increase sales of their Kenz Lifecorder line of accelerometers to the U.S. research market. We have also developed two distinct software solutions that link directly with their downloadable devices, allowing for much more efficient and accurate collection of data.

Suzuken LifeCorder Accelerometers
The Kenz Lifecorder research quality accelerometers from Suzuken offer a
more reliable and accurate alternative to traditional pedometers. The standard pedometer mechanism is replaced with a solid state piezo-electric chip, providing the researcher with infinitely more precise and reliable data.

Chosen by researchers throughout the world for over 20 years, Kenz Lifecorders provide reliable and valid measurements of physical activity. Suzuken devices have been validated against other leading physical activity monitors and tested against respiration chamber, oxymeter, doubly labeled water, and whole-body indirect calorimetry.

The new Lifecorder Plus™ is an evolution of the highly successful Lifecorder EX™. All Lifecorder devices feature the same extremely dependable accelerometer mechanism. DPS Health offers Lifecorders to physical activity researchers at less than half the current price of comparable devices.

Benefits of Lifecorder Accelerometers for Physical Activity Researchers

  • Allows for larger study populations

  • Creates more longitudinally complete data on each study subject

  • More reliable and accurate at lower cost then comparable devices

  • Efficiently manage online uploading of data
  • Study subjects can upload data without the need to return the device

    Lifecorder e-Step
  • The base version of Lifecorders, the e-Step comes with a seven-day memory and features a highly reliable and accurate accelerometer, allowing for measurement of steps and activity minutes.


    • Lifecorder Plus
  • The Lifecorder Plus features the same reliable activity monitor as the e-Step, with the addition of 60 days of memory and the ability to download data to a PC.


    • Lifecorder EX
  • The Lifecorder EX has all the features of the Plus, but with 200 days of memory to store physical activity data.


    • Click to download Lifecorder Specification Sheet

    For more information about Lifecorder accelerometers or any of DPS Health’s Physical Activity Promotion tools, please contact Adam Kaufman at akaufman@dpshealth.com or call 310-444-0636.