mHealth tools for monitoring Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients at home: Proof-of-concept.

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mHealth tools for monitoring Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients at home: Proof-of-concept.

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2017 07;2017:1555-1558

Authors: Camara MA, Castillo Y, Blanco-Almazan D, Estrada L, Jane R

Abstract
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder that affects mainly the adult and elderly population. Due to the high percentage of patients who remain undiagnosed and untreated because of limitations of current diagnosis methods, the management of OSA is an important social, scientific and economic problem that will be difficult to be assumed by health systems. On the other hand, smartphone platforms (mHealth systems) are being considered as an innovative solution, thanks to the integration of the essential sensors to obtain clinically relevant parameters in the same device or in combination with wireless wearable devices.

PMID: 29060177 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]