Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker (Vice)

Vice takesa look at the SleepyHead systemfor the management of CPAP machines.

The free, open-source, and definitely not FDA-approved piece ofsoftware is the product of thousands of hours of hacking anddevelopment by a lone Australian developer named Mark Watkins, whohas helped thousands of sleep apnea patients take back control oftheir treatment from overburdened and underinvested doctors. Thesoftware gives patients access to the sleep data that is alreadybeing generated by their CPAP machines but generally remainsinaccessible, hidden by proprietary data formats that can only beread by authorized users (doctors) on proprietary pieces ofsoftware that patients often can't buy or download.