For more than seven years we have been evolving technology and healthy behavior change and self-management interventions that engage patients to drive health outcomes.

As early as 2005, we were demonstrating the online interventions could help individuals adopt healthy behaviors.

Our strategy has been to partner with our clients – health systems, healthcare companies and healthcare providers – do develop and deploy solutions. An example is our partnership with the University of Pittsburgh to create an online version of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) - called Virtual Lifestyle Management™ (VLM).

The DPP, developed under a federal research grant from the NIH, is a landmark approach to patient weight management that was proven to help overweight, sedentary and obese patients lose weight and keep it off. University of Pittsburgh researchers worked with DPS Health to translate that face-to-face intervention into a web-based program. A study published in 2009 showed that obese and overweight adults using VLM were able to lose enough weight to be likely to improve their long-term health. The University of Pittsburgh has licensed VLM to DPS Health, allowing us to find new partners who can utilize VLM with their patients.

DPS Health has always been dedicated to your success and your patients’ good health. We look forward to the opportunity to discuss how web-based patient self-management education and support can help you and other clinicians across the nation extend the practice of medicine.