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Crystal PSG Software: What’s In It For Me, The Sleep Tech?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

It was before I became an employee here, that I first used CleveMed’s Crystal PSG software. I was a sleep tech working third shift at the time, and had very little tolerance for device-software-malfunctions in the wee hours of the morning. Understandably so, right? I thought their wireless PSG hardware was pretty cool; allowing the patient to move quite a bit freer than anything else I had used, but what was in it for me, the sleep tech? This blog is my answer to that question.

Interestingly enough, sometime later I joined CleveMed as their sleep application specialist. My input (as a sleep tech and a former customer), was considered an integral part of product development. More importantly, the customers’ input is routinely considered and often taken right into development. For the sleep tech who has never used Crystal PSG software before, I offer a brief overview in this blog. I also want to highlight a few features in Crystal PSG that I particularly appreciate, (hope other techs might benefit from this as well).

The Crystal PSG software offers a complete and user-intuitive software package for managing patient sleep data with data acquisition, scoring, and reporting. I like that it has a quick and easy system setup, as well as simple (as in convenient) patient and study management. Crystal PSG can be used with any of CleveMed’s PSG systems or SleepScout portable sleep monitor, so the same program and database can be used for multiple products.

In addition to the wireless capability, here’s my list of "what’s in it (Crystal PSG) for me the sleep tech"

  • Split Night Studies AHI on the fly is easily visible for the first two hours (or any time selection)
  • Labeling score channels is smoothly done through the montage editor.
  • Have excessive EKG artifact from a greenhorn tech? Not a problem with CleveMed’s "EKG removal tool".
  • Find navigating through the backdoors of your computers to find specific studies and patients difficult? Use CleveMed’s "archive tool".
  • Sleep study crashed on you midway and needs to pieced back together? Well…Try one of these options… either pull the study off of the SD card (backup data storage) located directly inside your patient unit OR use the intuitive merge utility to bring partial studies into one record.
  • I want to hear what my fellow-sleep-techs (who are probably reading this with your 6th cup of coffee) think of this, so write me back!