“Come for the lower pricing, stay for the quality.”

Here at N2sleep, you’ll be attracted by our amazingly low fee of just $35 per sleep study score. Such a minimal cost can dramatically reduce your operating costs and help you achieve and maintain a profitable sleep center.

What will make you stay is the quality of our scoring services. As the President of Clinical Operations, Glenn Roldan, RPSGT teaches our qualified technicians himself. A well known and respected speaker, Glenn has lectured nationally and internationally and has been an invited speaker at the Association of Professional Sleep Societies. You can be sure that our team of registered polysomnographic technologists is trained by the best.

At N2sleep, we believe that our clients deserve the best. As such, N2sleep only has qualified technicians working for us. We accept nothing less than techs with 4 year degrees, 2 years of clinical experience, a transcript, and qualifications to pass the exam. Our high standards ensure that our clients receive the best quality that they deserve.

Progress at N2sleep shows just how effective our quality of service is. We were the first company to offer a scoring service. We know do scoring for company all over the world. When N2sleep started, we were doing just 35 studies a month. Now we are doing more than 2500 studies per month. The facts speak for themselves. You’ll come for the lower pricing, and stay for the quality.

Here at n2sleep, we truly believe that our clients deserve the absolute best. As if low pricing and dependable quality were not already enough, n2sleep also guarantees a 48-hour turnaround time. This guarantee that your patients’ sleep study scores will be provided to you within 48 hours or less means that your patients’ scores can be interpreted sooner, and they will not have to wait long to begin treatment. In addition, you will develop an excellent reputation fast!

Try n2sleep scoring free for 6 studies to see our dependable quality of service.

N2Sleep Diagnostics

N2Sleep’s registered technical division collectively has 25 years of experience and is led by Glenn Roldan our vice president of clinical operations. With our team of experts helping you score 24/7, you can improve your efficiency and lower your operational costs. Scoring is one of the most expensive aspects of running a sleep lab and is also one of the most time-consuming. By engaging N2Sleep to help you run your sleep lab you can make managing a whole lot easier reducing your costs by as much as 50%.

By using our webportal the transmission of data and test results has been made a whole lot easier. For $35 a study you can have your tests processed and returned within 48 hours.  Because of our low overhead, we can provide fast and accurate scoring services that will help you reduce your operational costs while you can focus on your patients and developing your business structure. You no longer have to worry about training and hiring staff specifically for scoring. Our entire operational process complies with the standards of the American Association of Sleep Medicine. All of our techs are registered Polysomnographic technologists and have all completed the certification process that has been put in place.

Sleep Lab Automation

Our previous blog briefly discussed sleep scoring and the sleep study process. And even then, the overall process can appear complex and tedious for some. Many labs and sleep centers may want to refer to another source to help them out with this. This is where Sleep Work Flow comes in. There are many benefits that come with sleep lab automation.

This software was built by sleep lab experts just for sleep lab experts. This 100% web-based solution for sleep labs and centers will increase sleep center productivity and profitability. Consumers can organize and view patient data before, during, and even after a sleep study. Such a convenience is appealing to labs because they are most likely too busy to deal with such tedious things. Complete visibility and transparency for referring physicians, reading physicians, technicians, and office staff are offered as well.

We believe that it’s the little things that truly do count. Sleep Work Flow covers all those “little things” that make helping patients that much easier for sleep labs and centers. Sleep lab experts will be able to see and identify their “no show” population—usually 20% of all patients. By doing so, sleep labs can convert their “no show” population to an ambulatory testing platform. Sleep lab experts can then see and track those patients’ data. Not only that, but Sleep Work Flow offers complete patient data access anytime, anywhere.

This seamless flow of data can increase patient compliance, decrease appointment cancellations, and maintain follow-up schedules. Sleep Work Flow is software that can allow sleep labs to better help patients everywhere.

Sleep Studies & Sleep Scoring

In order to determine whether or not you suffer from sleep apnea, a sleep study must be conducted. This is called a polysomnography. It is a comprehensive recording of biophysical changes during sleep such as brain (EEG), eye movements (EOG), muscle and skeletal activity (EMG), heart rhythm (ECG), respiratory airflow and effort, and peripheral pulse oximetry.

However, this is not a simple process wherein the patient basically walks into a sleep lab and sleeps soundly for the whole night. Rather, the patient must go to the sleep lab in the early evening due to the preparation time. It takes about one to two hours to be introduced to the setting and to get “wired up.” The polysomnography records a minimum of twelve channels or leads. These leads require a minimum of twenty-two wires that are attached to the patient. The wires lead from the patient and converge into the central box that is connected to the computer system. This system records all of the information as well as stores and displays the data. The sleep study takes around six hours to gather all of the necessary information.

Once the sleep study is complete, the sleep scoring takes place. Scoring of the data is interpreted with the necessary background information of the patient including their medical history and a complete list of drugs being taken by the patient. Sleep efficiency is also determined. This is calculated by dividing the number of minutes asleep by the total number of minutes in bed.

There are four stages of sleep. The first three stages are referred to as non-REM while the last stage is called REM, or “rapid eye movement.” When someone is sleeping lightly, they are in the first or second stages of sleep. The second stage of sleep makes up the majority of sleep time. Stage three is referred to as slow wave or deep sleep. The fourth stage, REM, takes up twenty to twenty-five percent of sleep time.

All of this information goes into account when the sleep specialist is trying to determine whether or not someone has sleep apnea. It is important to confirm or deny having this sleep disorder as it is crucial that it be treated right away. If you or someone you know might suffer from this disorder, have a sleep study conducted as soon as possible.

Facts About Sleep Apnea

            Over 50 million Americans suffer from this. One in every eight people will have to struggle with its side effects. It’s the most common sleep disorder today. It’s called sleep apnea. An apnea is defined as a dramatic reduction in breathing or a pause of airflow for ten seconds or more. This results in a four percent drop in oxygen saturation in the blood—if not more. This disrupts sleep where in the individual moves out of a deep sleep into a more shallow sleep. Sleep apnea is defined as having at least fifteen apneas in just one hour. That’s quite a few times to be waking up in just one night’s rest!

            There are two types of sleep apneas. One is called central sleep apnea, or CSA for short. This is the more neurological malady. The second is called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OSA is the more physical malady of the two. When one falls asleep, the soft tissues toward the back of the throat lose their tone and rigidity. With a combination of gravity and the negative pressure associated with breathing, the soft palate and uvula fall back into the throat and collapse into the airway. This blockage is what causes OSA.

            An apnea is not the only thing out there that disrupts millions of the people’s beauty sleep. While not quite as severe as an apnea, a hypopnea also results in a four percent or more reduction in oxygen saturation in the blood as well as disrupts the level of sleep of the individual. A hypopnea is defined as a decrease in breathing.

            Apneas and hypopneas are measured by apnea indexes (AI) and hypopnea indexes (HI). Each index is measured by dividing the number of apneas or hypopneas by the number of hours of sleep. If one suffers from both, an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) divides the number of apneas and hypopneas by the number of hours of sleep. While a sleep apnea is defined as having an AHI of at least fifteen episodes per hour, those that suffer from daytime fatigue, hypertension, insomnia, ischemic heart disease, low flow of blood to the heart, mood disorders, and stroke only have to experience five episodes per hour to be diagnosed with sleep apnea. Not only does sleep apnea make all of those problems and complications worse, but many of those are the very side effects that come with sleep apnea.

            Loss of beauty sleep isn’t the only thing that this sleep disorder is at fault for.

Why are more and more companies opting for outsourcing firms?

This is a common question when it comes to outsourcing. As discussed in the blog I wrote earlier, many firms are finding it difficult to outsource tasks since they feel like they will be handing down important tasks to strangers. That is of course, an argument that has merit. However, the future of the industry is actually now on outsourcing. If we were talking ten years earlier, then, we may say that these worries are valid. However, these days, where outsourcing firms have enough capacity and more than adequate training when it comes to various fields, these fears have now become unfounded.

For one, when you outsource, you are leaving it to the hands of trained experts. Outsourcing firms know that their biggest advantage is in their team of trained professionals. When you hand over tasks to them, what you do is leave it to the hands of professionals who have been specifically trained for the job. What you get are highly accurate results by only the best in the field. As in the case of n2sleep (www.n2sleep.com), the main supervisor is none other than world renowned Dr. Glenn Roldan who supervises all the activities and personally trains the staff.

Secondly, when you outsource, you save a lot of time. Just think about it, when you outsource, what you are doing is assigning the task to people whose only job is to score sleep studies and nothing more. Compare it to your lab staff who have a lot of things to do other than score sleep studies. You get faster results this way.

And of course, it saves you a lot of money. Outsourcing is a lot cheaper than hiring more staff and still get slow results.

Outsourcing surely is the key to the future of sleep studies and sleep labs. Experience it today!