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.
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LatestWhat’s Next for Sleep Disorders Centers?
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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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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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...
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