Sleep monitoring device SleepImage that truly solves medical problems

Every year, nearly one million people are too tired to have sleep apnea during sleep. This is a problem caused by breathing disorders, which can relax the throat muscles during sleep and prevent air from entering the respiratory tract. This asphyxia is associated with obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Although this condition has certain symptoms, it is difficult to be diagnosed.

Release date: 2015-02-25

Every year, nearly one million people are too tired to have sleep apnea during sleep. This is a problem caused by breathing disorders, which can relax the throat muscles during sleep and prevent air from entering the respiratory tract. This suffocation is associated with obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Although the condition has certain signs (such as loud snoring and daytime fatigue), it is difficult to be diagnosed.

Why? Because the price of trying to diagnose sleep apnea is too expensive, and it also causes a lot of inconvenience to yourself. Polysomnography is a routine medical sleep study that requires a medical technician to connect 22 wires to the patient's body and monitor them overnight. The average cost is about $3,000.

Unlike first-generation motion tracking devices that only monitor motion and heartbeat, SleepImage is a clinical consumer wearable device that measures heart rate (ECG), snoring and snoring (via tissue vibration). SleepImage can also pay close attention to the movement of the body and the sleeping position - whether the user is lying down, sleeping sideways, or sleeping. The algorithm calculates the relationship between heart rate changes and changes in breathing. This relationship between the heart and the breathing rhythm, known as cardiopulmonary coupling, can map out sleep stages and respiratory interruptions, which were previously only measurable by polysomnography.

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SleepImage is small and has an oval shape that fits close to the chest of the heart. After waking up, the user can take off the wearable device and upload the data to HIPPA, a website that works with SleepImage, where the user can see the analysis of sleep at night: stable and unstable sleep stages, REM sleep, number of snoring Sleeping posture and sleep disruption. It can give doctors enough raw biometric data to distinguish between obstructive sleep apnea and other sleep-related breathing disorders.

When using a wearable device for clinical case studies, the researchers conducted a time series study of a couple. During the observation, the loudness of her husband’s voice was not enough to awaken his wife, but it was loud enough to disturb his wife’s stable sleep and let her ruin the daily life of the next day. After the husband treated the sleep apnea, his wife's sleep quality also improved.

SleepImage is priced at $249, its consumer-grade data service is $99 a year, and its prescription-level data service is $149 a year. But it is cheaper than polysomnography, depending on whether the measure can solve the problem. If the device becomes cheap enough, the data can tease out personal sleep problems and social sleep problems.

Source: Lei Feng Net

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