Dr.Golish: Will Home Sleep Testing Replace the Sleep Lab?

Joseph Golish, MD, is a board-certified specialist in sleep medicine and author of more than 300 publications on sleep. He is a member of the Sleep Steering Committee for the ACCP. After 35 years as a professor in The Cleveland Clinic and Co-Director of Sleep Medicine, he has left academic medicine to advance a new paradigm in sleep medicine, focusing on accessibility and affordability. His goals are the proper use of HST and fostering continuity of care, in an efficient and cost-effective manner, while preserving high quality. He is currently the Medical Director of Cleveland Medical Devices (CleveMed) and Director of Sleep Center, North Coast Clinical Trials, in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Science & Technology

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• Home Sleep Testing
• Sleep Lab
• Sleep study
• polysomnography
• Dr Golish

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Your crazy if you think Home Sleep Tesing is going to increase activity in the lab. General physcians will be able to manage there own patients using home studies and home care services. Just like and overnight oxymetry. The net monitary gain for a lab is decreasing your labor cost. Yes Complex sleep issues will be addressed in lab however more than half your sudies can be done at home and managed with autoPAP through a family physcian and the AASM will be able to do nothing about it!!!