If Oura Ring has detected sleep disturbances it may be a sign of sleep apnea. If so, you’re not alone – over 25 million Americans experience a form of sleep apnea every year. Ognomy and Oura are here to help you sleep better.
Next step is to book a video appointment with a sleep clinician. We are covered by most major insurance companies, and we will guide you through our easy process!
Ognomy is the world’s first, end-to-end, virtual sleep network – connecting patients to sleep doctors, home testing options, and treatment providers, for comprehensive sleep apnea care.
Oura’s accurate data about your sleep quality, phases, and patterns can help clinicians diagnose certain sleep disorders and determine the best treatment option.
Ognomy’s revolutionary virtual care network, home sleep testing, and Oura’s accurate data collection eliminate the inconvenience of having to go to a sleep lab.
Once treatment begins, Oura can help you monitor improvements to your sleep and provide your clinician with insights on how to modify your treatment.
Oura’s accurate data about your sleep quality, phases, and patterns can help clinicians diagnose certain sleep disorders and determine the best treatment options.
Ognomy’s revolutionary virtual care network, home sleep testing, and Oura’s accurate data collection eliminate the inconvenience of having to go to a sleep lab.
Once treatment begins, Oura can help you monitor improvements to your sleep and provide your clinician with insights on how to modify your treatment.
Schedule a video consultation with an Ognomy sleep specialist. Your Oura data will inform the discussion.
After your home sleep test, and once treatment has begun, your clinician can remotely monitor the sleep data collected from the Oura Ring.
Continue using Oura’s daily sleep scores and data to track your progress and optimize treatment with your clinician.
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that affects over 25 million people in America alone and almost a billion people worldwide. It occurs in all sexes and all age groups, and it commonly goes undiagnosed. In fact, more than 80% of patients with sleep apnea don’t even know they have it. Let’s get into the specifics. This disorder shows up, primarily, in two forms: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Central Sleep Apnea (CSA).
OSA is by far the more common of the two. It occurs when the muscles in the back of your throat fail to keep your breathing airway open, resulting in either a partial or complete blockage in your airway. Essentially, you stop breathing periodically throughout the night! This, in turn, signals your brain to partially wake up in order to tell your body that you need to breathe, because, you know, you need to breathe to stay alive. This can cause you to wake up as many as 500 times each and every night, depending on the severity of your OSA.
A note on the varying severity of OSA:
These apnea obstructions are often followed by gasping, choking, and snorting sounds, which are the result of trying to take a deep enough breath to fight past the obstruction so that you can breathe. Once a breath is taken, the brain returns to sleep. However, these events might be very subtle and are virtually silent to certain people.
Central Sleep Apnea (CSA) is a bit different. It is more of a communication problem with the brain than a mechanical problem with the breathing airways. With CSA, your brain actually fails to signal the muscles that are supposed to be regulating your breathing. CSA is much less common, comprising around 15% of all sleep apnea cases.
In short, Ognomy makes it simple to get tested, diagnosed, and treated for sleep apnea without ever leaving your home.
The Ognomy at-home sleep study is FDA approved, highly effective, and is shipped directly to your home. The test will monitor your oxygen and breathing levels and even your pulse rate. Ognomy also provides full instructions to enable you to self-administer the test, so you never have to travel to, or stay overnight, in a sleep test center.
You simply wear the test (3 simple steps and then click the start button) for one night and then you send it back to Ognomy. The study will be reviewed and hand-scored by a sleep technician and then interpreted by your doctor, who will decide the best course of action depending on your results.
This home testing option reduces the amount of time you would spend at numerous in-person appointments with a doctor, at a sleep center, or collecting and returning the equipment.
Contact us at support@ognomy.com if you would like more information.
While the Oura Ring cannot be used to diagnose sleep apnea, it can provide helpful insights on the quality of your sleep. Individuals with sleep apnea may experience reduced deep and REM sleep, which may be reported as excessive awake time in the Oura App.
Only after your consent, your Ognomy sleep clinician will be able to access your sleep, readiness, and activity data, including but not limited to information on your activity levels, readiness scores, sleep scores, sleep cycles, sleep timing, breathing regularity, and oxygen saturation. This data will help inform the clinician’s diagnosis and can help in optimizing any treatment for sleep apnea.
Ognomy and Oura have partnered together to test a hypothesis that your sleep apnea treatment adherence will improve when wearing your Oura Ring nightly and by using your Oura Ring data. Ognomy believes our clinicians can provide optimal care when they have deeper insights into your sleep health. Oura believes measuring sleep improvement will be engaging and reinforce healthy habits.
Once you decide to start therapy with Ognomy, just connect your Oura data in the Ognomy app. Ognomy clinicians will then enroll you into an Oura-informed therapy success program.
For your participation, Ognomy will cover your next 6 months of Oura membership following enrollment. All we ask in return is for participating members to complete an exit survey to evaluate how using the Oura Ring during treatment impacted your treatment.
