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

Vice takes
a look at the SleepyHead system
for the management of CPAP machines.

The free, open-source, and definitely not FDA-approved piece of
software is the product of thousands of hours of hacking and
development by a lone Australian developer named Mark Watkins, who
has helped thousands of sleep apnea patients take back control of
their treatment from overburdened and underinvested doctors. The
software gives patients access to the sleep data that is already
being generated by their CPAP machines but generally remains
inaccessible, hidden by proprietary data formats that can only be
read by authorized users (doctors) on proprietary pieces of
software that patients often can’t buy or download.