“A Pittsburgh-based start-up company, Rehat LLC (dba NOCTEM; www.noctemhealth.com), was selected for a competitive $1.33M award by Medical Technology Consortium Enterprise (MTEC) to pilot a novel telehealth platform treating the unmet sleep healthcare needs of Service Members.”
“For this project, the Noctem team is joined by colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and experts in sleep research and sleep specialists led by Dr. Rachel Markwald, Principal Investigator at the Naval Health Research Center Sleep and Fatigue Research Laboratory (NHRC). NHRC received $660K to lead a large implementation-effectiveness trial using the Noctem platform.”
“The two-year study will evaluate new smartphone- and web-based technology to offer military service members and their providers convenient access to proven therapies for insomnia, nightmares, and other sleep disturbances…” Read the full press release here.
Source: Start-up Company Wins $2M Award Competition to Evaluate an Innovative Telehealth Sleep Solution with 800 Members of the US Armed Forces – June 3, 2019. Business Wire.