FIX Health Announces TruStep™, a New Walking Challenge Product That Differentiates Between Steps Synced From a Fitness Tracker and User-Entered Steps

ATLANTA, June 21, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Wellness Company FIX Health announces today a new step counting filter in their proprietary activity tracking system that differentiates between a manually entered step and a step tracked by the user's chosen tracking device.

Serving the Employee Wellness market, this new module allows FIX Health to deliver mobility challenges and programs with verified user activity data without the need for employers or users to invest in any special technology.

The step validation technology is called TruStep™ and will first be available with FIX Health's ground-breaking employee activity program "The Outbreak." The Outbreak is currently available as an employee wellness program to companies of all sizes. Employees form into teams and use their real world steps and exercise to test their survival chances in a simulated zombie outbreak.

"The Outbreak has really caught hold of people - emotionally" says Mike Tinney, Founder and former Video Game Industry Executive. "Participants get really into The Outbreak. Users are highly engaged, so much so that it inspires some users to exaggerate their efforts, and manually enter more steps than they're actually taking."

Tinney notes, "The possibility of users cheating by entering fake step counts in a competitive health challenge is one of the biggest problems for step challenges in general, but especially ours given player enthusiasm."

"The challenge we faced here," adds AJ Kolenc, FIX Health's CTO, "was to ensure that no matter what device a person chooses to use with The Outbreak, we can determine if their steps were actually measured rather than manually entered. We needed a guarantee. This meant digging deep into the inner workings of every supported device, even when that data wasn't readily available."

The result is a companion product called TruStep™ that allows The Outbreak to differentiate between steps that have been manually inputted by the user, and steps recorded and synced by a fitness tracker, be it a phone or wearable like a FitBit or Garmin. The Outbreak stands in a rare category of health challenge where 100% of the step data coming in can be validated as real.

"We're excited about this update," concludes Tinney. "It's going to change the legitimacy of the program and give FIX Health yet another competitive advantage in the employee health behavior change marketplace." Interested parties can read more in FIX Health's June Blog.

SOURCE FIX Health