NovaSom,
Inc., the leader in home sleep testing and cost-saving solutions for
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) management, announces its first AccuSom
Deliver™ partnership with SSM Center for Sleep Disorders, a service of
SSM Health Care - St. Louis, making convenient, efficient Out-of-Center
Sleep Testing (OCST) available to patients at seven locations throughout
the area beginning October 1, 2012.
Located in the St. Louis, Mo., metropolitan region, SSM Center for Sleep
Disorders is a leader in the specialized diagnosis and treatment of
sleep-related breathing disorders such as OSA, offering the latest
technology and following the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's
standards for evaluating and performing sleep
studies. The AccuSom Deliver program will allow the sleep centers to
significantly increase capacity with access to a complete OCST logistics
solution, while maintaining complete clinical control of their patients.
The program offering includes a cloud-based portal for the seven sleep
centers to enable efficient management of uncomplicated adult OSA
diagnosis in the comfort of the patient's home.
Team Leader of SSM Center for Sleep Disorders, Daniel Tirado, said,
"Sleep apnea is highly prevalent in Missouri and with our seven
locations throughout the metropolitan St. Louis area, previously we've
considered offering out-of-center or home sleep testing to allow us to
diagnosis more patients, faster. However, purchasing or renting home
sleep testing devices in bulk would have required a significant
operations and logistics burden in-house, from device delivery to
validation of testing-in-progress to device retrieval. We are very
excited to be working with NovaSom and plan to utilize the turnkey
AccuSom Deliver program to provide speed-to-market, reduce operating
expenses, eliminate any capital burden and give us the ability to adjust
instantly to spikes in volume."
Leveraging more than ten years' experience with turnkey OCST, the
AccuSom Deliver program allows Sleep Centers to enjoy the scale and
operating efficiency of NovaSom's proprietary MediTrack® operating
platform and StudyViewer® interpretation portal. The new portal is
integrated with the AccuSom® testing device, the first and only wireless
out-of-center sleep study device approved by the FDA.
Once a sleep specialist prescribes an OCST through the cloud-based
portal, NovaSom ships the device directly to the patient's home.
NovaSom's Clinical Team provides proactive, 24/7 clinical support to
patients throughout the testing protocol. Leveraging NovaSom's mHealth
partnership with Verizon, the test data is transmitted wirelessly
through the Verizon Network to the portal and presented in a
user-friendly display ready for sleep specialist interpretation.
Richard Hassett, MD, CEO, NovaSom, Inc., said, "The addition of
out-of-center testing to SSM Center for Sleep Disorders will extend
their sleep specialists' reach in every market served with a highly
convenient, clinically-accurate OSA testing solution that will
significantly shorten the elapsed time to diagnosis. The true benefit of
the AccuSom Deliver program and online portal is the ability to
virtually remove the capital expenditure and administrative burdens that
often make OCST impractical for sleep centers to implement at scale."
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