Anda Baharav, MD, chief scientist and founder of SleepRate, presented a poster at SLEEP 2014 called “How Fitness Heart Rate Belts And Mobile Phones May Be Used To Screen For Sleep Disorders.”
After launching a medical device in 2007 that was “ahead of its time,” according to Baharav, the team tried the consumer route. Baharav and her team started looking at what was available off the shelf. The answer was heart rate belts. “When we compared the results that were coming from medical-grade ECG, they were quite similar,” she says. “So we started to use heart rate belts and a mobile application to look into the sleep of patients.”
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