Category: Connected Care

Connected Care

How Novel Insights From Autoscoring Could Change the Practice of Sleep Medicine

Sleep study autoscoring is starting to go beyond simply calculating the apnea-hypopnea index.

Connected Care

New ‘AlertSafe’ System Promises Safer Shift Work

AlertSafe's algorithms use a mathematical model based on the biology of sleep to estimate the impact of work schedules on alertness levels.

Connected Care

New EnsoSleep FDA Clearance Includes Total Sleep Time for Home Sleep Tests & Pediatric Scoring

Originally cleared by the FDA in 2017, the update introduces additional sleep apnea subtyping and detection capabilities, including Cheyne-Stokes respiration, periodic breathing episodes, respiratory rate, and more.

Telemedicine

AASM Updates Position Paper on Sleep Telemedicine

The update addresses key issues including quality and value, privacy and safety, health advocacy, and future directions.

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

Investigational Sleep Study Algorithm Available for Free Use Worldwide

In all, 20,000 nights of sleep from the United States and a host of European countries have been collected and used to train the algorithm.