About MedBug

Medbug is a multi-sensor mattress strip and bedside device developed by the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) Sleep Health team in collaboration with the Medical Device Research Institute at Flinders University. The device records high-fidelity breathing motion and acoustic data and uses high-performance machine-learning for multi-night sleep problem diagnosis and monitoring not possible with current single night sleep study methods alone.

🎯 The Problem

An estimated 20% of diagnostic tests for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) lead to misdiagnosis due to night-to-night variability in sleep and breathing disturbances. Another problem is that current treatments rely on a trial-and-error approach because standard diagnostic tests do not identify and allow for treatments to be targeted to underlying causal mechanisms.

💡 The Solution

Standard diagnostic tests plus multi-night measures at home should improve diagnostic accuracy. New device measures of ventilation and breathing effort can also help to identify and target treatments to underlying causal mechanisms.

👥 Team