ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Sleep tracking has moved beyond a wellness tool used by Quantified Selfers to a medical grade technology with the potential to create patient data that the sleep specialty has never had before. Insights from a growing body of longitudinal sleep data will not only help in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders themselves, but in chronic diseases in which sleep disorders drive disease processes and compromise outcomes.
Human beings spend one third of their lives in sleep, so it’s obviously a vital function. However, sleep is largely a black box to both sleepers and researchers.
