SLEEP REVOLUTION aims to fundamentally change clinical sleep medicine with the introduction of a new diagnostic and digital management paradigm. The technology developed in this program combines the highest degree of diagnostic accuracy for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), the home setting instead of the artificial sleep environment of a hospital setting, advanced telemedicine technology, novel machine learning diagnostic algorithms together with a high degree of participatory patient involvement.
Research participants in the project self-administer the sleep studies, sleeping at home for multiple nights with diagnostic equipment beyond the current clinical state-of-the-art. The latest innovations in telemedicine is employed to provide comprehensive information of wellbeing, symptom burden and treatment adherence by a self-administered sleep diary and a new European Sleep Questionnaire, developed within the project, continuous monitoring of biosignals via wearables and objective daytime testing, all performed at home by the patient. All of the clinically relevant information and sleep study results are available to the patient, emphasizing the important component of participatory health care. All data is transferred to a central data cluster and digital management platform with secure and controlled access to the patient subject, as well as relevant healthcare and research staff. Novel analysis algorithms using machine learning provide sleep parameters with high diagnostic precision and significantly enhanced predictive value for patient-related outcome measures compared to current clinical practice.
Individuals with SDB, from habitual snoring to severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) constitute the main target population for the SLEEP REVOLUTION because the unmet medical need for improved diagnostic and management algorithms is huge in Europe and worldwide. However, the principles the new diagnostic and management approach that we are introducing can be transferred to the clinical management of all other sleep disorders. The predictive capacity of novel diagnostic parameters is now being validated in a Pan-European study setting aiming to generate a new sleep diagnostic standard in Europe – a true SLEEP REVOLUTION
