Yeah, no. Neither ResMed nor Phillips show you, the patient, the same data Sleepyhead or the companies’ own clinical software does. You won’t see your events, or the flow - time graph, or your flow restriction graph, or your APAP pressure graph in any company’s consumer app, and those graphs are key to understanding and scoring the events. The machines often score events wrong - they can’t tell if you are awake or asleep - so taking a look at the time flow graph can tell you whether central apneas were real, or if you were awake or transitioning, and all sorts of other information. You may not need to see this data, but if you do want to see it, the company apps for consumers won’t show it to you.
Your doctor (or in many cases, a respiratory therapist) may not even bother to look at the graphs. The high res data is only available direct off the card. Low res data and compliance info is what is sent over the ResMed cellular modems. (Not sure what Phillips sends, datawise.) Many docs or RTs just look at the AHI and the number of hours used and say “Looks fine”, regardless of whether you are sleeping well.
ResMed’s myView app and website, for instance is really just a compliance app, literally more concerned with your hours of use, number of times you started and stopped the machine, and mask leak rate than it is with the actual success of your treatment, such as your actual number of apneas and hypopneas. myView gives you a supposed success score of 1-100, of which your apneas per hour only get a max of 5 points. And the app doesn’t tell you anything about your events, not whether they were centrals or obstructive, nor the total time in apnea, nor your 95% pressure, your snore rate - nothing. Just the AHI. That’s it.
