Smart phone application for tracking sleep quality and peripheral arterial tonometry to detect sleep apnea

This article presents a tracking application on the smart phone for sleep quality peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT) to detect sleep breath disorder (SBD). SBD can be found in around 20-30% among middle-aged men in Thai population. Sleep data from patient such as sleep duration, sleep apnea and sleep habit history in terms of video and picture will significantly help the physician to analyses symptoms including oxygen saturation. The smartphone is used for healthcare applications on tracking patient sleep by 1-2 week. The innovation is to record patient sleep from home. This sleep application can tell about sleep time, sleep apnea by peripheral satisfied oxidization with the ability to connect with the doctor by application. In addition, the innovation is inexpensive and can test sleep in a lot of people and many days, which is basically suitable for one of the big data for Thai health regulated by Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and the government. Combining this data with other patient information such as vital sign and blood pressure could solve many unknown problems of Thai people. The application could link with brainwave functions that can be measured at home and collect data for big Data to evaluate for future research.