Method for secure diagnostic screening, servicing, treatment, and compliance monitoring for sleep apnea in truck drivers
First Claim
1. A method for delivering sleep apnea screening, sleep apnea treatment, and sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring on an at least one commercial driver to a trucking company by a general coordinator comprising:
- the sleep apnea screening comprising;
a. providing input information to the general coordinator using a secured sleep apnea diagnostic screening questionnaire completed by the at least one commercial driver;
b. determining positive predictive values for sleep apnea by categorizing input information using computer instructions on a server to categorize the input information into a member of the group consisting of;
male Witnessed Apnea Positive (WA+), female Witnessed Apnea Positive (WA+), male Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Positive (EDS+) requiring an odds ratio calculation, female Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Positive (EDS+) requiring an odds ratio calculation, male Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Negative (EDS−
) requiring an odds ratio calculation, or female Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Negative (EDS−
) requiring an odds ratio calculation;
c. providing a health screening service report using the categorized input information from the general coordinator to the trucking company adapted to identify commercial drivers with high predictive values for sleep apnead. providing a summary of all positive predictive values using input information to the trucking company; and
the sleep apnea treatment comprising;
e. directing at least one commercial driver to a physician to prescribe a sleep test for sleep apnea and transmitting the results of the sleep test to the general coordinator;
f. providing sleep apnea treatment equipment comprising a data transfer device paired with a CPAP machine comprising a compliance chip by the general coordinator to the at least one commercial driver indicated by the sleep apnea test data to have sleep apnea simultaneously when the sleep apnea sleep test concludes;
the sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring comprising;
g. using the data transfer device by the at least one commercial driver to transmit sleep apnea treatment equipment data from the sleep apnea treatment equipment to the general coordinator;
h. contacting each at least one commercial driver with sleep apnea by the general coordinator after a first predetermined period of continuous compliance monitoring to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance; and
i. following the first predetermined period contacting each at least one commercial driver with sleep apnea periodically by the general coordinator to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance.
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Abstract
A secure method for delivering sleep apnea diagnostic services on an at least one commercial driver to a trucking company. The sleep apnea diagnostic services are delivered by a general coordinator using a system. The system includes at least one processor connected to an input device, an output device, and a data storage. The data storage includes a plurality of secure computer instruction. The processor is in encrypted communication with a network which is in encrypted communication with at least one client device.
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1. A method for delivering sleep apnea screening, sleep apnea treatment, and sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring on an at least one commercial driver to a trucking company by a general coordinator comprising:
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the sleep apnea screening comprising; a. providing input information to the general coordinator using a secured sleep apnea diagnostic screening questionnaire completed by the at least one commercial driver; b. determining positive predictive values for sleep apnea by categorizing input information using computer instructions on a server to categorize the input information into a member of the group consisting of;
male Witnessed Apnea Positive (WA+), female Witnessed Apnea Positive (WA+), male Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Positive (EDS+) requiring an odds ratio calculation, female Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Positive (EDS+) requiring an odds ratio calculation, male Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Negative (EDS−
) requiring an odds ratio calculation, or female Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−
) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Negative (EDS−
) requiring an odds ratio calculation;c. providing a health screening service report using the categorized input information from the general coordinator to the trucking company adapted to identify commercial drivers with high predictive values for sleep apnea d. providing a summary of all positive predictive values using input information to the trucking company; and the sleep apnea treatment comprising; e. directing at least one commercial driver to a physician to prescribe a sleep test for sleep apnea and transmitting the results of the sleep test to the general coordinator; f. providing sleep apnea treatment equipment comprising a data transfer device paired with a CPAP machine comprising a compliance chip by the general coordinator to the at least one commercial driver indicated by the sleep apnea test data to have sleep apnea simultaneously when the sleep apnea sleep test concludes; the sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring comprising; g. using the data transfer device by the at least one commercial driver to transmit sleep apnea treatment equipment data from the sleep apnea treatment equipment to the general coordinator; h. contacting each at least one commercial driver with sleep apnea by the general coordinator after a first predetermined period of continuous compliance monitoring to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance; and i. following the first predetermined period contacting each at least one commercial driver with sleep apnea periodically by the general coordinator to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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