Aims : To provide a state-of-the-art overview of the growing role of digital health and telemedicine in the management of patients with different sleep breathing disorders; to describe the recent development of new technologies for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with sleep breathing disorders; to describe the optimal use of these new technologies and explain their cost-effectiveness; to describe the current and possible future roles of consumer technologies for patients with sleep breathing disorders; to explain the possibility of analysing big data derived using the telemedicine approach and to identify possible opportunities and risks.