> but any country with public healthcare (most of the first world)
You may not be familiar with US healthcare but the US both does and doesn't have public healthcare. It generally depends on which political party dominates the state gov.
> you [someone else] can do a sleep study free or low copayment.
How nice!
> A basic CPAP you can usually rent,
Not without a Rx.
> and you can switch off call home functions on all the ones I've seen.
That's cool but we're talking about something different - collecting data not blocking it. Specifically, the data collected by CPAP that's used to lower AHI.
CPAP makers like ResMed lock their data behind proprietary formats. The software that can read proprietary CPAP data is federally limited to Drs.
US
> but any country with public healthcare (most of the first world)
You may not be familiar with US healthcare but the US both does and doesn't have public healthcare. It generally depends on which political party dominates the state gov.
> you [someone else] can do a sleep study free or low copayment.
How nice!
> A basic CPAP you can usually rent,
Not without a Rx.
> and you can switch off call home functions on all the ones I've seen.
That's cool but we're talking about something different - collecting data not blocking it. Specifically, the data collected by CPAP that's used to lower AHI.
CPAP makers like ResMed lock their data behind proprietary formats. The software that can read proprietary CPAP data is federally limited to Drs.