Do you use both ResScan and SleepHead to analyze data?

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Papit
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Re: Do you use both ResScan and SleepHead to analyze data?

Post by Papit » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:38 pm

NateS wrote: "There are some things I like much better in the SleepyHead program, and there are some things I like much better in the ResScan program. Both can be obtained without any cost.
"It only takes me a couple of minutes to drop my data into both programs each morning while the SD card is in my laptop, so I get the best of both worlds. . ."
Ditto. I use them both every day. Use them both for a while and decide yourself whether you want one or both. Now and then one or the other gets the heebee jeebees when the aliens are in attack mode. So you'd always have a backup -- as well as a means by which to validate any surprising data or graphs that show up on the main one you use ; i.e., by checking with the other software.

In general, SleepyHead has more attractive cosmetics and some different graphical data presentation and, therefore, may be a little easier for some users to interpret the graphs/data. It's also a development work in progress that comes from one of our own cpaptalk.com members, Jedimark, and he responds to input from users. On the other hand ResScan has a cleaner, neater look to me. ResScan has been around longer, is in wider use, seems more solid and reliable to me and is professionally recognized in the medical, and probably legal worlds. SleepyHead is still in Beta and known to have a few more or less inconsequential bugs. ResScan was designed for use by doctors and sleep technicians for multiple patients' data. It is somewhat 'heavier' and not as quick as SleepyHead. So they really are different and each has its strengths and weaknesses relative to the other.

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Re: Do you use both ResScan and SleepHead to analyze data?

Post by Chuck Connors » Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:46 pm

Pugsy wrote:
Chuck Connors wrote:I'm curious, when I filled out my profile, the section asking which software I use gives a person the option of selecting ResScan Version 3.3 or ResScan 3.7. Can you help me understand the difference in the 3 versions (3.16; 3.3; 3.7)? Thank you. -Chuck-
All the equipment choices in the drop down menu are things that cpap.com either sells or has sold in the past. If never available from cpap.com it won't show up as a choice. Back in 2009 Rescan did offer their software for sale and the version was 3.7 stated on the box.
I know that it appears that version 3.7 should be the newer version but it is not. I think it might have been really 3.07... and 3.3 was really 3.03. The link I gave you was indeed the latest version. Trust me on this one. I use it myself.
Since cpap.com no longer is allowed to sell the software it doesn't have any of the newer versions listed.
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Pugsy,

Thank you for clarifying that 3.16 is the latest version of ResMed ResScan. That's very helpful.

-Chuck-