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Once more, we continue our video series of Q & A with Dr. Joseph Golish on Current & Emerging Trends in Sleep Medicine. This week’s topic of discussion is The Role of Home Sleep Testing in Long Term Disease Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Dr. Golish, is a board-certified specialist in sleep medicine and author of more than 300 publications on sleep. He is a member of the Sleep Steering Committee for the ACCP. After 35 years as a professor in The Cleveland Clinic and Co-Director of Sleep Medicine, he has left academic medicine to advance a new paradigm in sleep medicine, focusing on accessibility and affordability. His goals are the proper use of HST and fostering continuity of care, in an efficient and cost-effective manner, while preserving high quality. He is currently the Medical Director of Cleveland Medical Devices (CleveMed) and Director of Sleep Center, North Coast Clinical Trials, in Cleveland, Ohio.

This week, we continue our video series of Q & A with Dr. Joseph Golish on Current & Emerging Trends in Sleep Medicine. Here’s the BIG question: Will Home Sleep Testing Replace the Sleep Center?

Dr. Golish, is a board-certified specialist in sleep medicine and author of more than 300 publications on sleep. He is a member of the Sleep Steering Committee for the ACCP. After 35 years as a professor in The Cleveland Clinic and Co-Director of Sleep Medicine, he has left academic medicine to advance a new paradigm in sleep medicine, focusing on accessibility and affordability. His goals are the proper use of HST and fostering continuity of care, in an efficient and cost-effective manner, while preserving high quality. He is currently the Medical Director of Cleveland Medical Devices (CleveMed) and Director of Sleep Center, North Coast Clinical Trials, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Recently, I had the honor of participating in Q & A with Dr. Joseph Golish, MD, as he discussed current and emerging trends in sleep medicine. We compiled this engaging, informative, commentary into a video series, with each section answering a specific question about trends in sleep medicine. This week, Dr. Golish shares his opinion on Home Sleep Testing.

Dr. Golish, is a board-certified specialist in sleep medicine and author of more than 300 publications on sleep. He is a member of the Sleep Steering Committee for the ACCP. After 35 years as a professor in The Cleveland Clinic and Co-Director of Sleep Medicine, he has left academic medicine to advance a new paradigm in sleep medicine, focusing on accessibility and affordability. His goals are the proper use of HST and fostering continuity of care, in an efficient and cost-effective manner, while preserving high quality. He is currently the Medical Director of Cleveland Medical Devices (CleveMed) and Director of Sleep Center, North Coast Clinical Trials, in Cleveland, Ohio.

CleveMed’s DreamPort^™ was recently launched at Sleep 2009 in Seattle, WA:

DreamPort expands the reach of your sleep lab by allowing remotely attended sleep studies to be done from anywhere using a bedside system controlled by sleep lab technologists miles away - over the internet!

CleveMed showcased this innovative product with a Live Remotely Attended Sleep Study! A patient located in Cleveland, Ohio was hooked up to a Sapphire PSG™ which wirelessly transmitted the real time data to the DreamPort located in the patient’s room. Using the camera and broadband technology that the DreamPort provides, the patient’s full PSG data was viewed live by sleep technicians in Seattle, Washington at Sleep 2009!

DreamPort Benefits:

DreamPort is especially ideal for those who are unable to make it into the sleep lab, such as pediatric patients, cross country truckers, the elderly, those with chronic pain and hospital inpatients. In addition, this system gives clinicians and researchers greater flexibility to conduct sleep studies in anyplace. DreamPort is suitable for clinical trials as it allows for cost effective research studies to be conducted in the patient’s home while adding an additional element of home care. Moreover, DreamPort is easy to use. The small, portable and single-button design simplifies the overall process and deployment.

DreamPort’s Easy Process:

Step 1: Patient is hooked up with Sapphire PSG
Step 2: Patient pushes power button on DreamPort
Step 3: Sleep tech remotely starts study from sleep lab
Step 4: Sleep tech controls video and full PSG data remotely

Broadband technology combined with a camera is used to transmit the patient’s full PSG data and video to technologists in real-time, allowing studies to be conducted anywhere the patient is.