Patent ID: 8200510

Claim:
A method for delivering sleep apnea screening, sleep apnea treatment, and sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring on an at least one operator of a transport vehicle of a transport 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 at least one operator of a transport vehicle; 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 transport company adapted to identify operators of transport vehicles with high predictive values for sleep apnea; iv. providing a summary of all positive predictive values using input information to the transport company; and b. the sleep apnea treatment comprising: i. directing at least one operator of a transport vehicle to a physician to prescribe a sleep test for sleep apnea and transmitting the results of the sleep test to the general coordinator; and 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 each operator of a transport vehicle indicated by the sleep apnea test data to have sleep apnea simultaneously when the sleep apnea sleep test concludes; c. the sleep apnea treatment compliance monitoring comprising: i. using the data transfer device by each operator of a transport vehicle to transmit sleep apnea treatment equipment data from the sleep apnea treatment equipment to the general coordinator; ii. contacting each operator of a transport vehicle 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 of contacting of each operator of a transport vehicle with sleep apnea periodically by the general coordinator to ascertain sleep apnea treatment equipment performance.