Category: Connected Care

Connected Care

Can Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnostics Be Completed in Less Than One Hour?

New research provides evidence that obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis can be shortened from one night or more to less than one hour—and conducted during the day.

Connected Care

SleepX Wants to Commercialize Detection of Sleep Apnea Severity From Speech Patterns During Wake

SleepX has signed a commercialization agreement for patents pertaining to the detection of sleep apnea severity through speech analysis.

Connected Care

PhD Candidate Develops Wrist-Worn Device to Detect Sleep Apnea

The wrist-worn device looks like a smartwatch or fitness tracker and involves illuminating the skin with green light from LEDs.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Program Improves Access to Sleep Care for Rural Veterans

The VHA TeleSleep Program launched telehealth services in 2017 to support the testing, diagnosis, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and other sleep disorders.

Remote Monitoring

COVID-19 Has Negative Impact on CPAP Use & Sleep Quality, Finds Philips Survey

The survey revealed a drop in the proportion of sleep apnea patients using their CPAP and an increase in the proportion who have never used their device.

Big Data

CleveMed Adds Home Sleep Testing Data Transfer Patent

CleveMed has been issued a new patent that covers the collection of patient data from standard home sensors and the data transfer using internet, cellular or wired-network methodologies, among others. US Patent number 10,028,698...

AI & Machine Learning

Will Nanosensors in Clothing Monitor Sleep Apnea in the Future?

Nanowear’s SimpleSense uses its proprietary cloth-based smart nanosensor technology to capture and analyze these low-noise, 85+ biomarkers using time-synchronous scattering methods.