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Between late-night gatherings, large meals, and the stress of holiday planning, it’s easy to let sleep fall by the wayside. However, prioritizing rest can help you feel more present and energized to enjoy the holiday. Here are some strategies to navigate common Thanksgiving sleep challenges…
As a leader in sleep therapy, BetterNight encounters many patients whose COPD is complicated by obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition where breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep. When these two conditions overlap…
Each November, National Diabetes Month highlights the importance of understanding diabetes and the ways in which lifestyle choices, including sleep, impact management. Diabetes, a chronic condition affecting how the body processes blood sugar, has far-reaching effects on…
Discover efficient at-home sleep apnea solutions for bariatric surgery prep. Streamline evaluations with BetterNight, enhancing patient care and surgical outcomes. Reduce unnecessary tests and focus on personalized, patient-centered approaches for optimal results.
Learn how sleep quality crucially influences immune function, impacting ENT disorders like sinusitis and allergies. ENT specialists should prioritize sleep assessment to enhance care. Practical strategies include using sleep screeners in evaluations and collaborating with specialists. This interdisciplinary approach improves health outcomes by addressing the intricate link between sleep and immunity.
As a diabetes educator, you play a crucial role in patient health. This step-by-step guide helps you implement an effective Sleep Apnea Screening Program. Learn how to screen for sleep apnea, which will improve glycemic control and overall health. Set program objectives, identify high-risk patients, use downloadable tools and refer patients for diagnosis with BetterNight’s support.
Explore the latest advancements in sleep health from the SLEEP 2024 conference, focusing on personalized medicine, CPAP adherence, and technology integration. Learn about BetterNight's innovative end-to-end sleep apnea solution designed to ensure equitable and effective sleep health care for all.
Explore the latest advancements in sleep health from the SLEEP 2024 conference, focusing on personalized medicine, CPAP adherence, and technology integration. Learn about BetterNight's innovative end-to-end sleep apnea solution designed to ensure equitable and effective sleep health care for all.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, highlighting the link between sleep apnea and mental health. Affecting over 30 million U.S. adults, sleep apnea can worsen anxiety, creating a cycle of poor sleep and heightened stress.
This article explores the link between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and hypertension. It discusses OSA's cardiovascular effects and its role in various hypertension types. It emphasizes holistic treatments like CPAP, lifestyle changes, and personalized medicine, highlighting the benefits of telehealth solutions for patient management and improved outcomes.
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy stands as the gold standard treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, a significant number of patients struggle to tolerate CPAP, often citing nasal congestion as a major hindrance to adherence. In an effort to address this issue, researchers conducted a study to investigate the potential benefits of Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART) for patients facing challenges with CPAP adherence and experiencing nasal symptoms. The Study…
CPAP/APAP therapy remains the gold standard for treating OSA. Unfortunately, many patients struggle with long term CPAP/APAP adherence. Patients frequently have only 90 days to meet Medicare criteria for adherence to assure coverage of their CPAP/APAP therapy. Lack of adherence often leads to…
CPAP is the gold standard therapy for OSA. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of patients do not tolerate CPAP therapy. Of those who struggle, a significant portion state that nasal congestion is a limiting factor. Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART) is a new non-medication based treatment for nasal congestion. We sought to determine if patients struggling with Medicare CPAP adherence and reporting nasal symptoms would benefit by the addition of ART.
To understand the connection between Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and sleep apnea, you must first understand the health consequences of chronic sleep deprivation as well as the co-morbidities that exist between these two conditions. It has been well documented that sleep plays a vital role in our overall health.
Among the many comorbidities that exist with sleep apnea is GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. While most of us have suffered from occasional acid reflux or heartburn, GERD is characterized by the more frequent reflux occurrence, when stomach acid moves up from the stomach to the esophagus.
BetterNight can help you grow and optimize your dental sleep practice by providing a variety of sleep apnea services. We work in partnership with dental sleep providers so that the treatment process begins and ends in your dental office, allowing for efficiencies and flexibility in overall treatment.
Obesity in the United States has grown to epidemic proportions. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 40% of adults in the U.S. are obese. New research predicts that by the year 2030, about 49% of the population will be obese, with 29 states reflecting an obesity rate of over 50%.
The word “apnea” means the absence of breathing. Sleep apnea refers to a potentially serious medical condition that causes patients to temporarily stop breathing while they are sleeping. The repetitive occurrence of oxygen deprivation creates different kinds of alarms throughout your body, interrupting normal processes for your brain, heart, lungs, hormones, and other key systems.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) falls into the category of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). This condition occurs when the upper airway partially or completely obstructs when you are sleeping.
Sleep might look like a passive activity on the surface, but your body and mind are actually hard at work when you hit the sack. Sleeping plays an important role in your memory and learning processes. When you learn how to do something new, memory, and sleep processes work together to internalize that new knowledge.
In this On-Demand BetterNight & EnsoData webinar, we dive into that question, as technology is making waves in more than just diagnosis and treatment. Learn how game-changing AI technology can be predictive of future CPAP problems.
The practice of sleep medicine has been integrating more virtual care for the past few years. The pandemic has only increased the velocity of this change. BetterNight helps sleep physicians, physicians in other specialties, and dentists expand their practices, improve patient outcomes, and integrate virtual care.
By integrated home sleep testing and apnea care management Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG) has reduced high-cost utilization by over 90% during the past decade. Learn how your ACO can find meaningful savings by integrating a virtual sleep management program.
BetterNight, a leading virtual-care sleep apnea patient management provider, is proud to announce that Dr. Marc Benton has joined the company as a Staff Doctor serving patients in New Jersey.
BetterNight, a leading provider of comprehensive sleep care through its virtual care platform, announced today $33 million in growth funding led by NewSpring. The financing round includes participation from existing investors HCAP Partners and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE) via its Impact Fund II and other accounts managed by the firm.
Peerbridge Health and BetterNight are partnering on a unique new care management solution designed specifically for cardiology practices for earlier identification, treatment, and optimization of ongoing care management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and nationally recognized impact investor, today announced its series B investment in BetterNight, one of the nation's leading comprehensive virtual-care sleep health solutions.
BetterNight, the nation's only comprehensive virtual-care sleep health solution, today announced its successful completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 compliance. SOC 2 compliance requires both a technical audit alongside comprehensive information security policies and procedures.
BetterNight understands the importance of keeping truck drivers on the road during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we face this challenge together, millions of us stay at home, but thousands of drivers are working hard to ensure goods get to our local communities.
Itamar Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: ITMR) (TASE: ITMR), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive medical devices, solutions and a digital health platform to aid in the diagnosis of respiratory sleep disorders, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Sleep Data Diagnostics and its virtual-care platform BetterNight and Sleep Data Holdings, a leading provider of home-based positive airway pressure (PAP) services.
Sleep Data and BetterNight, the leading providers of PAP (positive airway pressure) services in San Diego, CA, today announced a $6 million round of growth funding led by HCAP Partners, a San Diego-based provider of growth capital to middle-market companies.