mHealthysleep – Improving patients sleeping quality at home – Early detection, assessment, and personalised management of sleep disorders at home.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder, especially in older people, affecting 9-38% of the population. It causes intermittent oxygen deprivation and sleep disruptions, leading to fatigue and daytime sleepiness. Without treatment, OSA significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

MHealth is a mobile based system for home diagnosis, sleep monitoring and treatment of OSA and sleep disorders. With MHealth, we enable early detection of sleep disorders through multi-night, at home monitoring. It supports diagnosis, personalized positional therapy, and sleep quality measurements offering an unseen combination in smartphone-based medical devices for sleep disorders.

The key strengths of our technology are:

-            A diagnostic algorithm that integrates audio and accelerometer signals coming from a mobile phone device using simple wearables (optional use of an oximeter).

-            A personalised and high-resolution sleep position monitoring, by calculating the sleep angle, and its correlation with apnea events (current methods consider just four classical positions).

-            Positional therapy based on the programmable vibration of the mobile phone. It can be delivered from the app to avoid sleeping in apnea-inducing angles, thus reducing obstructive events.  

The implementation of mHealthSleep seeks after a reduction in the health and economic costs of sleep disorders, offering a technology that can easily reach more patients (even in mild stages of the disease) and facilitate primary care access to sleep disorder screening, unobtrusive remote monitoring, positional therapy delivery, and personalized follow-up at home.