Patent ID: 8249896

Claim:
A method for delivering sleep apnea screening, sleep apnea treatment, and sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring on a plurality of operators of heavy equipment of a company by a general coordinator comprising: a. the sleep apnea screening comprising: i. providing input information to the general coordinator using a secured sleep apnea diagnostic screening questionnaire completed by the operator; ii. determining positive predictive values for sleep apnea by categorizing input information using computer instructions on a server to categorize the input information into a member of the group consisting of: male Witnessed Apnea Positive (WA+), female Witnessed Apnea Positive (WA+), male Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Positive (EDS+) requiring an odds ratio calculation, female Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Positive (EDS+) requiring an odds ratio calculation, male Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Negative (EDS−) requiring an odds ratio calculation, or female Witnessed Apnea Negative (WA−) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Negative (EDS−) requiring an odds ratio calculation; iii. providing a health screening service report using the categorized input information from the general coordinator to the company adapted to identify operators with high predictive values for sleep apnea; and iv. providing a summary of all positive predictive values using input information to the company; b. the sleep apnea treatment comprising: i. directing at least one operator to a physician to prescribe a sleep test for sleep apnea and transmitting the results of the sleep test to the general coordinator; ii. providing sleep apnea treatment equipment comprising a data transfer device paired with a CPAP machine comprising a compliance chip by the general coordinator to the operators indicated by the sleep apnea test data to have sleep apnea when the sleep apnea sleep test concludes; c. the sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring comprising: i. using the data transfer device by each operator to transmit sleep apnea treatment equipment data from the sleep apnea treatment equipment to the general coordinator; ii. contacting each operator with sleep apnea by the general coordinator after a first predetermined period of continuous compliance monitoring to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance; and iii. following the first predetermined period, contacting each operator with sleep apnea periodically by the general coordinator to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance.