October_Medical Technology Topics|Sleep Breath Detection Technology Business Opportunities
Sleep snoring is not to be taken lightly! Snoring like thunder, beware of the silent sleep health killer ~ sleep apnea quietly, sleep apnea is a common, but under-diagnosed health problems, sleep, breathing repeated interruptions in the suspension and resumption of invisible hypoxia, in addition to low blood oxygen, the brain is prone to wake up the body, resulting in shallow sleep or sleep and wake up, frequent fluctuations in blood oxygen throughout the night will also affect the blood pressure, cardiac and other new vascular health, during the day! In addition to excessive fatigue, irritability, or difficulty concentrating, it will also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease, and metabolic disease. If the brain's hypoxia awakening mechanism is weak, long-term sleep hypoxia is likely to increase the risk of dementia by two times. The reasons for the lack of medical diagnosis of sleep apnea mainly come from the inability to visually connect the symptoms with the disease, the lack of awareness of the potential patients, and the inconvenient limitations of the overnight sleep polyphysiological examination of PSG (polysomnography) in sleep centers such as the presence of many interferences, the high cost, and the high rate of error, etc. In addition to the unfamiliar environment of difficulty in falling asleep during the sleep examination, it is also easy to wear the polyphysiological patches in the same time. In addition to the difficulty of sleeping in an unfamiliar environment, wearing multiple physiological patches at the same time may cause discomfort and increase sleep disturbance, or the test device may fall off due to rolling over, etc. All of the above interfering factors may lead to a high error rate of the data from a one-night, single test, or the inability to comprehensively understand the patient's condition, and in addition to a small number of beds in the sleep centers, which makes it time-consuming to make a reservation and difficult to find a bed, and a high cost of the one-night, single test, and inability to monitor and track the patient's condition in a long period of time. Limitations.
有鑒於此,睡眠呼吸中止症偵測科技正快速崛起,正朝向居家、簡便、舒適、不干擾睡眠,精準和長期監測效益發展。有別於以往,以脈搏/心率、血氧飽和度、鼾聲、鼻氣流和胸部運動等多項生理參數量測,創新睡眠呼吸中止症偵測科技的發展趨勢主要著重在穿戴感測器整合應用、AI/ML演算法強化生理數據分析,以及病症指數(如呼吸中止低通氣指數(AHI)、呼吸紊亂指數(RDI)和血氧飽和度( SaO2 ))的關聯性驗證分析,來優化量測參數並提升診斷準確性,其中又以脈搏/心率的血氧飽和度偵測和氣動偵測等偵測技術備受市場關注,分別應用在智慧血氧裝置如WatchPAT® (開發商:Itamar Medical)、智慧手錶如Galaxy Watch®及Apple Watch®、智慧床墊如Sleep Rx Mat® (開發商: Withings),各裝置除在偵測準確率皆>85%以上外,並已獲得美國FDA核准上市。雖然睡眠呼吸中止偵測科技目前僅用於警示通知或風險評估,來提醒用戶可能有睡眠呼吸中止症的症狀,並非實質診斷工具,但有助於簡化睡眠護理,增強居家睡眠檢測,一般民眾可透過相關裝置自行篩查自身睡眠健康狀態風險,或預先篩檢揪出潛在睡眠呼吸中止症後,進行轉診到醫院尋求醫師詳細檢查診斷,或經由該裝置可提供醫生詳細的睡眠監測數據和報告,以便醫生全面了解患者實際的病情。 揪出沉默睡眠殺手,潛在8成患者尚未診斷 根據Research and Markets(2024)數據,2023 年全球全球睡眠呼吸中止症測試設備市場規模10.3億美元,預估到2028年可成長 2.18倍,達到 22.5億美元,年複合成長率為 16.8%。其成長機會點來自肥胖、睡眠障礙人群增加,根據Lancet數據全球近10億成年人受睡眠呼吸中止症影響,其中潛在約8成患者尚未診斷,隨著健康監測普及,民眾關注睡眠健康問題,也讓潛在患者的覺察意識逐漸提高,加上市場上睡眠科技產品推陳出新,如方便、經濟實惠、準確地居家睡眠呼吸中止症偵測設備上市,不僅滿足睡眠數據收集及臨床應用的需求,也更符合個人化和智能化睡眠健康管理需求。 台廠積極佈局睡眠呼吸科技,助攻開拓海外市場商機 隨著智慧穿戴大廠商三星Galaxy Watch、蘋果Apple Watch等在今年陸續推出睡眠呼吸中止症偵測的新功能,不難看出智慧健康穿戴市場瞄準看好睡眠市場的需求,其中睡眠呼吸中止低篩檢率更是大家覬覦的目標市場。台灣睡眠呼吸中止科技業者如專攻檢測診斷的安克生醫、大立雲康、泰博科技,均透過創新,也在正積極佈局相關篩檢市場,試圖力搏睡眠呼吸中止症商機,安克生醫以免過夜AI超音波睡眠檢測系統(呼吸道結構塌陷偵測裝置),10分鐘快篩,揪出阻塞性睡眠呼吸中止症,已成功外銷美國、南韓、泰國; 大立雲康以AI 睡眠監測DOMII® (度眠)裝置,無線感測技術,打造不受干擾的睡眠生理監測,提供睡眠呼吸中止指數分析,獲台灣睡眠醫學會認證; 以及泰博科技看好居家睡眠科技,智慧戒指FORA Ring®新品上市,主打協助監測睡眠呼吸中止、心律不規則等風險,全球睡眠呼吸科技開跑,國際間睡眠呼吸偵測科技陸續百花齊放,相信以台灣ICT+AI/ML+感測器的佈局也有望取得不錯的成績。 -For more information, please contact us at






