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During and after the pandemic, the road ahead for sleep labs is likely to look different than what has been traveled before.
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LatestDoctors Struggle to Get Paid for Telehealth Visits
Provider payments vary by states, plans, and shifting policies, reports MedPage Today.
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Using Sleep Telemedicine to Address CPAP Noncompliance in a Middle-Aged Woman
The founder of a virtual sleep center helps an obstructive sleep apnea patient re-qualify for and keep her therapy.
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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The Doctor Is Online: Joseph Krainin, MD, FAASM
Sleep physician Joseph Krainin, MD, FAASM, founded virtual sleep center Singular Sleep, where...
Read MoreTelemedicine Helps Rural Patients Get Care Close To Home
For one patient, the process is made easier because the doctor can adjust the settings on his CPAP machine through the internet, reports Northern Public Radio. “We’re face-to-face, talking with each other as it would...
Read MoreCan One New Code Spur a Telehealth Revolution?
CMS’s introduction of the new CPT code 99091 means clinicians can now bill separately for time spent on collection and interpretation of health data that is generated by patients remotely, reports MedCity News. This direct...
Read MoreUCB, Science 37 Partner to Conduct At-Home Trials in Neurology
Science 37, a company focused on “site-less” clinical trials, has entered into a strategic collaboration with global pharmaceutical company UCB regarding the clinical trial experience. With the use of Science 37’s decentralized...
Read MoreIndustry Voices—Embracing the Changing Landscape of Medicine
Seema Khosla, medical director of the North Dakota Center for Sleep, discusses the importance of telemedicine for sleep disorders in Fierce Healthcare. Too many patients in rural communities are without access to sleep medicine....
Read MoreSleep Medicine Patients “Very Pleased” with Pilot of Navy Care Virtual Health App
Naval Hospital Jacksonville now offers some health visits as virtual visits, thanks to a new app. Navy Medicine is conducting its worldwide pilot of Navy Care at Naval Hospital Jacksonville. Navy Care enables patients to have a...
Read MoreTexas Sleep Medicine Customizes BlueEHR Platform
ZH Healthcare, makers of blueEHR platform, expanded system capability for major clients, developed and launching a hospital management system and a telemedicine platform, and expanding its workforce by 20%. Texas Sleep Medicine...
Read MoreAASM SleepTM Now Has a Patient-Facing Smart Phone App
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) launched the AASM SleepTM app for iOS, a mobile app that directly connects patients to sleep medicine professionals and accredited sleep centers through the AASM SleepTM telemedicine...
Read MoreAASM Names Dr Ilene Rosen President
Today, Ilene Rosen, MD, became the 32nd president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) board of directors. Rosen assumed the role during SLEEP 2017. She will serve a one-year term. “As the US health care system...
Read MoreJoseph Krainin, MD, Joins SoClean As Chief Medical Advisor
CPAP sanitizing device company SoClean announced that Joseph Krainin, MD, FAASM, has joined the SoClean team as chief medical advisor.Krainin is founder and president of Singular Sleep LLC, a telemedicine health startup founded...
Read MoreProSomnus, BlueSleep Launch EFFECTS Study to Research Oral Appliance Patient Experience, Outcomes
ProSomnus Sleep Technologies, a precision oral appliance for obstructive sleep apnea manufacturer, has announced the beginning of the EFFECTS study. In the study, patients with an apnea hypopnea index (AHI) of 5 to 50 will be...
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