Telehealth Program Aids in Sleep Apnea Diagnoses for Rural Veterans
To improve access to sleep care for rural veterans, participating VA medical centers pivoted to home sleep tests, contributing to an increase in sleep apnea diagnoses.
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AJC: Daniel Rifkin, MD, MPH, founded Ognomy, a telemedicine app to available in Georgia and New York to facilitate sleep apnea diagnosis.
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Virtual Pulmonary Exams Telehealth Platform Launches
Eko Telehealth incorporates stethoscope and ECG live-streaming combined with embedded video conferencing and FDA-cleared AI algorithms for heart murmur and AFib detection.
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“Unprecedented Demand”: Sleep Medicine Scales Its Remote Offerings
Telemedicine appointments and drop-shipped home sleep tests surge during the pandemic. Some predict these changes may be incorporated into a new normal.
Read MoreDoctors Struggle to Get Paid for Telehealth Visits
Provider payments vary by states, plans, and shifting policies, reports MedPage Today.
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Consumers Have Another Mail-Order Option for Sleep Apnea Testing, and It Bypasses In-Person Visits
A sister company to SoClean launches an end-to-end telemedicine network.
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Telemedicine Legal Update 2020
A healthcare attorney outlines sleep telemedicine and telehealth reimbursement issues, licensure, common requirements, and more.
Read MoreSleep Physician Provides Telemedicine Introduction for COVID-19
Seema Khosla, MD, presents “sleep telemedicine 101” including information on temporary flexibility from payors during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Why I Opened a Home Sleep Test-Only Private Practice
Vikas Jain, MD, FAASM, finds that HST can lower barriers to entry not only for patients, but for sleep specialists as well.
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Lights, Camera, CPAP!: St. Louis Health System Creates Video Education for Sleep Patients
Nurse practitioner Loretta Colvin figured out a way to provide patients with extra sleep apnea...
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Video-Conference CBT-I May Be an Accessible Solution for Your Insomnia Patients
New research suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy delivered live over telemedicine works as...
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Developing Your Webside Manner [Editor’s Message]
Telemedicine encounters differ from being in the same room with patients —in surprising...
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How to Get Sleep Apnea Patients into Well-Fitting Interfaces…Remotely
As fewer patients come into sleep labs for mask fittings and titration studies, telemedicine...
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Sleep Telemedicine Service for Self-pay Patients to Launch as AASM Subsidiary, CleveMed, CPAP Shop Parent Partnership
Agile Medical, parent company of The CPAP Shop, has partnered with Welltrinsic, a subsidiary of...
Read MoreTelemedicine As Effective As Face-to-face Delivery of CBT-I
Preliminary findings from two analyses of an ongoing study suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) delivered by telemedicine is as effective as face-to-face delivery. Results of a randomized controlled...
Read MoreStartup Wins Competition to Evaluate Telehealth Sleep Solution with 800 Members of US Armed Forces
A Pittsburgh-based start-up company, Rehat LLC (dba NOCTEM), was selected for a competitive $1.33M award by Medical Technology Consortium Enterprise (MTEC) to pilot a telehealth platform treating the unmet sleep healthcare needs...
Read More5 Questions About Sleep Telemedicine
Barry G Fields, MD, MSEd, spoke to Pulmonology Consultant about sleep telemedicine. It is difficult to quantify how much telemedicine has improved access to diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, but we do know that patient...
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