Sleep equipment maker ResMed reports it that it has hit a landmark moment in monitoring sleep patients: 1 billion nights of sleep data have been downloaded using its AirView remote patient monitoring platform.
“One billion isn’t just a big number,” said Atul Malhotra, MD, chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and director of Sleep Medicine at UC San Diego Health. “It’s a major milestone that holds great promise for future research and the treatment of sleep apnea and other respiratory conditions through connected health tools.
“We are about to enter a new phase of sleep research and sleep understanding,” added Malhotra, who is also the immediate past president of the American Thoracic Society, “using big data to improve patients’ well-being.
ResMed first enabled sleep physicians and specialists to remotely monitor CPAP patients in 2004. Remote monitoring helped them rapidly identify which patients were experiencing therapy issues, improving both patient health outcomes and business efficiency for healthcare providers.
Now, more than 3 million patients are monitored by AirView, with more than 200,000 diagnostic tests processed in the cloud, and more than 1,000 patients per day signing up for myAir to track their own therapy use on ResMed Air10 devices.
“This unprecedented amount of data enables predictive analytics to help physicians and providers better manage patients’ sleep apnea and COPD therapy, and ultimately improve their overall health,” ResMed CEO Mick Farrell said. “Reaching 1 billion nights is about more than just big data; it’s a testament to how the adoption and meaningful use of technology benefits patients, physicians, and providers everywhere, and we couldn’t be more pleased to start 2017 with this exciting news — this is just the beginning!”
“We’ve come so far from the days of manual data gathering, one patient at a time,” said Sharon Schutte-Rodin MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UPenn’s Perelman School of Medicine. “Integrating ResMed’s CPAP data into Epic helps us better track visit documentation, triggered workflows, internal benchmarks, and outcomes. The prospect of viewing data across populations to further personalize and improve patients’ care is very exciting.”