Consumer Sleep Technology: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Statement

• DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.7128
• Publication Date: 2018-05-14T21:31:48Z
• Authors: Seema Khosla; Maryann C. Deak; Dominic Gault; Cathy A. Goldstein; Dennis Hwang; Younghoon Kwon; Daniel O'Hearn; Sharon Schutte-Rodin; Michael Yurcheshen; Ilene M. Rosen; Douglas B. Kirsch; Ronald D. Chervin; Kelly A. Carden; Kannan Ramar; R. Nisha Aurora; David A. Kristo; Raman K. Malhotra; Jennifer L. Martin; Eric J. Olson; Carol L. Rosen; James A. Rowley
• Keywords: Sleep; Sleep medicine; Position statement; Position paper

Consumer sleep technologies (CSTs) are widespread applications and devices that purport to measure even improve sleep. Sleep clinicians may frequently encounter CST in practice and, despite lack of validation against gold standard polysomnography, familiarity with these has become a patient expectation. This American Academy Medicine position statement details the disadvantages potential benefits CSTs provides guidance when approaching patient-generated health data from clinical setting. Given United States Food Drug Administration (FDA) clearance, cannot be utilized for diagnosis and/or treatment disorders at this time. However, enhance patient-clinician interaction presented context an appropriate evaluation. The ubiquitous nature further research practice. future validation, access raw algorithms, FDA oversight needed.