Resmed Inc. announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for Personalized Therapy Comfort Settings (PTCS), to be marketed as Smart Comfort. Smart Comfort is the first FDA-cleared AI-enabled medical device that recommends personalized comfort settings to help people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) start and stay on CPAP therapy. Smart Comfort will launch in early 2026 in a limited U.S. beta version for new users of myAir?, Resmed's consumer sleep companion app, paired with a Resmed AirSense?
11 device. It will be followed by a broader U.S. rollout to new myAir users later in 2026. CPAP therapy is not one-size-fits-all.
Addressing common therapy issues, like comfort and mask fit, early can promote long-term adherence. Smart Comfort leverages Resmed's proprietary machine-learning algorithms, drawing on more than 100 million nights of de-identified, real-world sleep data and user information, such as age, gender and Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI), to recommend individualized comfort settings for CPAP therapy delivered by Resmed's market leading AirSense 11 devices. These include settings that help ease users into therapy, adjust how gradually an AirSense 11 increases pressure and reduce pressure on exhale.
Smart Comfort was developed with clinical oversight and ethical data use in compliance with privacy laws, considering quality and patient safety at every stage. The FDA submission was supported by retrospective real-world evidence showing that Resmed AirSense 10 and 11 users whose comfort settings matched Smart Comfort recommendations had higher engagement and sustained therapy adherence compared to those using default settings. These findings demonstrate that personalized comfort adjustments can help improve the therapy experience without compromising efficacy.
In the U.S., OSA impacts an estimated 61 million people and is expected to rise to nearly 77 million by 2050. Left untreated, OSA can significantly impact health and quality of life, increasing the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke. CPAP therapy, the gold standard treatment for sleep apnea, can significantly reduce the risk of death in people with OSA.
For healthcare providers, Smart Comfort offers a solution to help streamline user setup and follow-up and reduce manual adjustments so clinicians can devote more attention to clinical decision-making and patient support. By getting people engaged in their therapy from day one, Smart Comfort helps standardize the comfort settings workflow and builds user confidence that their settings are personalized for them. These non-prescription comfort settings are designed to support CPAP therapy device usage - not alter prescribed therapy settings or therapy efficacy.
Together with other myAir features, including Dawn??, Therapy Control and Streaks, these innovations demonstrate Resmed's commitment to responsible, data-driven innovation that helps more people start and stay on therapy.
