On Thursday, a Belgian sleep diagnostics firm named Dawn introduced plans to start delivering sleep care within the U.S. by the acquisition of Dreem Well being, a California-based sleep clinic.
Dawn was based in 2015 to simplify the affected person journey for many who undergo from poor sleep. The corporate has raised greater than $35 million from traders together with Amazon’s Alexa Fund, VIVES Companions and Kurma Companions.
Entry to sleep medication is a worldwide downside, identified Dawn CEO Laurent Martinot. Within the U.S., there is just one sleep physician for each 45,000 individuals.
“Rising up with a father who’s a sleep specialist, I understood the challenges confronted by these with sleep situations — the battle of getting correct diagnoses, the frustration of lengthy wait instances and the discomfort of therapies for a lot of. I additionally understood the significance of sleep on one’s general well being,” Martinot remarked.
Now that it’s acquired Dreem Well being, Dawn has begun offering telehealth companies to U.S. sufferers. They’ll both come to Dawn with a prescription for a sleep take a look at, or they’ll acquire a prescription from the corporate’s care staff, which entails a web-based survey and digital session, Martinot defined.
As soon as they’ve a prescription, sufferers use Dawn’s sleep sensors to watch their sleep. After this, Dawn connects sufferers with a sleep specialist who can then assist decide a prognosis and create a care plan.
These companies are at the moment obtainable for sufferers in California, Iowa, Maryland and Washington — and the corporate stated its choices are slated to be obtainable nationwide someday subsequent 12 months.
By way of the acquisition, Dawn is gaining Dreem Well being’s payer community, which incorporates partnerships with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Protect, Cigna, Medicare and UnitedHealthcare.
Dreem Well being’s platform provides a spread of remedy choices, equivalent to oral home equipment, optimistic airway strain remedy, cognitive behavioral remedy for insomnia, Martinot famous.
He additionally stated that Dawn and Dreem Well being have all the time shared the identical imaginative and prescient to repair and ease the affected person journey for individuals in want of sleep care.
“Constructing our digitalized model of the sleep clinic was the subsequent logical step in advancing this long-term mission. With Dreem Well being now a part of our staff, we’re transferring past simply prognosis to offering end-to-end care. We will help these affected by poor sleep get screened, identified and handled in only a few days — all from the consolation of their dwelling, making sleep medication not simply extra easy however extra accessible as properly,” Martinot declared.
In his view, BetterNight and Ognomy are two of Sunrises’ fundamental rivals. Martinot thinks his firm’s basis of science and analysis helps it stand out from different gamers within the sleep medication area.
Dawn has collaborated with “among the brightest minds in sleep medication” to develop its applied sciences, and the corporate’s merchandise have been featured in dozens of scientific papers revealed to advance the healthcare trade’s understanding of sleep apnea, he acknowledged.
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