Business and regulatory development for Integrating sleep enhancement technology into clinical practice

将睡眠增强技术融入临床实践的业务和监管发展

• 批准号: 10428404
• 负责人: Daniel Gartenberg
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: PROACTIVE LIFE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10428404
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SleepSpace uses a SaaS platform and device to monitor the quality of a user’s sleep and provide feedback aimed at improving a user’s “Sleep Journey.” The system connects patients who suffer from insomnia and sleep apnea to doctors and psychologists. SleepSpace provides tools to the provider to improve their diagnoses and treatment of these disorders. We request assistance with assessing the payer reimbursement landscape and developing a business model around potential reimbursement opportunities, including actigraphy and remote patient monitoring codes (i.e. CPT codes 99453, 99454, 99457, and 99484). The use of these codes will be investigated both for our novel hardware system for measuring sleep, and via our software that integrates with Apple product like the iPhone, Apple Watch, and HomePod. If insurance will not reimburse for the use of these codes, we will explore business models around selling the product to clinicians for improving the efficacy of their practice and increasing their revenue through increased charges to the patient, outside of the healthcare payment system. During Phase I of the project we will complete a pre-submission to the FDA and have written feedback from them regarding the appropriate regulatory pathway for our SaaS platform/device/accessory, including possible 510(k) approval. This phase will involve an information gathering session, drafting the submission, and a follow-up questions meeting to process the FDA’s feedback. This will be followed by attending the meeting with the FDA to review and approve their meeting minutes. We will understand the most up-to-date RPM and virtual care reimbursement requirements and the resulting business model implications. We will receive marketing materials and provided with a comprehensive RPM/virtual care FAQs document with answers to customers’ frequently asked questions, allowing SleepSpace to educate its team and close deals faster. In order to complete this task we will collaborate with Nixon Gwilt Law, a law firm who specializes in accelerating healthcare innovation. Nixon Gwilt is a woman owned law firm based in Virgina and it was recommended to SleepSpace by one its investors at Quake Capital. Nixon Gwilt has helped many similar companies successfully create a business model in the healthcare billing ecosystem. In Phase II we will apply what we learned in Phase I to executing on our business model. We will hire Larta Inc to help complete the commercialization aspect of the project. Larta Inc is a SAM-registered and qualified small business entity and a fully owned subsidiary of Larta institute and has been working with SBIR/STTR grantees for the last 15 years. Larta will be responsible for pursuing a different intellectual property strategy, entering the market with our product, and collaborating with commercial partners. Changes in IP strategy may include focusing more or less on our hardware versus software patent portfolio. Based on our findings we may enter the market going through psychologists, pulmonologists, or joint offices. Alternatively, we may focus more on general practitioners and wellness coaches. Ideal corporate partnerships would include fortune 500 companies looking to lower their insurance premiums, insurance providers, hospitals, and living facilities.

SleepSpace使用SaaS平台和设备来监控用户的睡眠质量并提供 旨在改善用户“睡眠之旅”的反馈。该系统将遭受痛苦的患者 从失眠和睡眠呼吸暂停到医生和心理学家。SleepSpace为 服务提供者改善他们对这些疾病的诊断和治疗。我们请求协助 评估付款人报销环境，并围绕潜力开发业务模式 报销机会，包括动作记录和远程患者监控代码(即 CPT代码99453、99454、99457和99484)。将对这些代码的使用进行调查 对于我们用于测量睡眠的新型硬件系统，并通过我们集成了 IPhone、Apple Watch和HomePod等苹果产品。如果保险公司不赔偿 使用这些代码，我们将探索向临床医生销售产品的商业模式 为了提高他们的执业效率，增加他们的收入 向患者收取费用，在医疗保健支付系统之外。 在项目的第一阶段，我们将完成向FDA的预提交，并 他们就我们SaaS的适当监管途径提供的书面反馈 平台/设备/附件，包括可能的510(K)批准。这一阶段将涉及 信息收集会议、提交材料的起草和后续问题会议，以 处理FDA的反馈。之后将与FDA一起出席会议，以 审核并批准他们的会议纪要。我们将了解最新的RPM和 虚拟护理报销要求和由此产生的商业模式影响。我们 将收到营销材料并提供全面的RPM/虚拟医疗常见问题解答 文档中包含客户常见问题的答案，使SleepSpace能够 培训其团队，更快地完成交易。为了完成这项任务，我们将与 尼克松·格尔特律师事务所，一家专门从事加速医疗创新的律师事务所。尼克松·格维特 是一家由女性拥有的律师事务所，总部设在弗吉尼亚州，它的一位律师向SleepSpace推荐了它 Quake Capital的投资者。尼克松·格威尔特帮助许多类似的公司成功地创建了 医疗保健计费生态系统中的一种商业模式。 在第二阶段，我们将把我们在第一阶段学到的东西应用到我们的业务模式执行中。 我们将聘请Larta Inc.帮助完成该项目的商业化方面。Larta Inc.是 在SAM注册并符合条件的小型企业实体和Larta的全资子公司 在过去的15年里，该研究所一直与SBIR/STTR的受资助者合作。拉塔将会是 负责推行不同的知识产权战略，与我们的 产品，并与商业合作伙伴合作。知识产权战略的变化可能包括 或多或少地专注于我们的硬件与软件专利组合。根据我们的发现 我们可以通过心理学家、肺科医生或联合办公室进入市场。 或者，我们可以更多地关注全科医生和健康教练。理想企业 合作伙伴包括寻求降低保险费的《财富》500强公司， 保险提供者、医院和生活设施。

项目成果

A non-pharmacological multi-modal therapy to improve sleep and cognition and reduce mild cognitive impairment risk: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial.

一种改善睡眠和认知并降低轻度认知障碍风险的非药物多模式疗法：随机临床试验的设计和方法。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107275
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Contemporary clinical trials
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Emert,SarahE;Taylor,DanielJ;Gartenberg,Daniel;Schade,MargeauxM;Roberts,DanielM;Nagy,SamanthaM;Russell,Michael;Huskey,Alisa;Mueller,Melissa;Gamaldo,Alyssa;Buxton,OrfeuM
• 通讯作者: Buxton,OrfeuM

Secondary analysis of a randomized trial testing community health educator interventions for diabetes prevention among refugees with depression: effects on nutrition, physical activity and sleep.

• DOI: 10.1186/s12966-023-01509-y
• 发表时间: 2023-09-12
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
• 影响因子: 8.7
• 作者: Wagner, Julie A.;Bermudez-Millan, Angela;Buckley, Thomas E.;Buxton, Orfeu M.;Feinn, Richard S.;Kong, Sengly;Kuoch, Theanvy;Master, Lindsay;Scully, Mary F.
• 通讯作者: Scully, Mary F.

Reduced coupling between cerebrospinal fluid flow and global brain activity is linked to Alzheimer disease-related pathology.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001233
• 发表时间: 2021-06
• 期刊: PLoS biology
• 影响因子: 9.8
• 作者: Han F;Chen J;Belkin-Rosen A;Gu Y;Luo L;Buxton OM;Liu X;Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
• 通讯作者: Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Patterns of Eating Associated with Sleep Characteristics: A Pilot Study among Individuals of Mexican Descent at the US-Mexico Border.

• DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2021.1902814
• 发表时间: 2022-03
• 期刊: Behavioral sleep medicine
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Ghani SB;Delgadillo ME;Granados K;Okuagu AC;Wills CCA;Alfonso-Miller P;Buxton OM;Patel SR;Ruiz J;Parthasarathy S;Haynes PL;Molina P;Seixas A;Jean-Louis G;Grandner MA
• 通讯作者: Grandner MA

Multidimensional sleep health is associated with physical frailty in a national sample of Taiwanese community-dwelling older adults: Sex matters.

在台湾社区居住的老年人的全国样本中，多维睡眠健康与身体虚弱有关：性别很重要。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2022.05.003
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Sleep health
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Chen,Tuo-Yu;Lee,Soomi;Buxton,OrfeuM
• 通讯作者: Buxton,OrfeuM