This has put an increased pressure on sleep labs and services. The reimbursement pathways are getting increasingly complex and there is mounting pressure on the margins. Many sleep services are struggling to stay afloat; Innovation has become a necessity without which sleep centers shall find it difficult to attend to the growing numbers of patients. One way of simplifying the process is outsourcing the scoring of sleep study data to reliable partner. The problems of lack of qualified sleep technicians in many parts of the world can also be dealt with by using this pathway. Casual use of freelancers cannot be trusted for quality and timely delivery.

A new trend has been strongly emerging lately – wherein, sleep study scoring services are outsourced. Though some are skeptical about this model, many have already tested the waters, and are finding it the best way to tackle the lack of staff and to lower their costs significantly.