A Holistic System for Pre-clinical Diagnosis of Sleep Disorders in the Home Environment
Marc Hasler, Andreas Burgdorf, André Pomp, Christian Kohlschein, Christina Büsing, Stephan Jonas · 2019
The potential for mHealth solutions is steadily increasing due to an enormous growth in the area of mobile networks and the mobile Internet. However, not only the general connection is becoming faster and more stable, but also the mobile devices themselves are becoming even more advanced. Nowadays, these devices are able to acquire physiological data and transfer them to e.g. a physician or technician to be analyzed before an actual appointment. Using these technological advantages, more and more evidence could be used for diagnosis and treatment. Instead, long preparation and delay are part of everyday practice nowadays and information and data acquisition take up much time before diagnosis.This paper describes a general concept for a centralized screening / pre-diagnosis system for mobile sleep laboratories. The system is designed to have as little influence as possible on the usual sleep environment, but still allows a medically usable recording of sleep activities and health parameters. Furthermore, the concept covers the access possibilities of the attending physician as well as the back-flow of a final diagnosis. Finally, we report on the resulting challenges of such systems with respect to privacy.