Obstructive sleep apnea affects millions worldwide, yet the vast majority remain undiagnosed. Untreated OSA increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and accidents, both at home and in the workplace. The challenge? Our current tools can’t keep up.
The world doesn’t have an OSA treatment problem, it has a detection, engagement, and pathway problem. Soliish solves that by making identification instant, frictionless, and actionable.
Traditional screening methods require patient engagement, clinician time, and often in-person visits. They simply don’t scale to community-wide or population-wide screening efforts. This leaves millions of high-risk individuals unidentified until their symptoms become severe.
Population health initiatives have long struggled with OSA screening because:
The result? Late diagnoses, higher treatment costs, and preventable health deterioration.
A pivotal study published in April 2020 — “Predicting sleep apnea from three-dimensional face photography” (Eastwood et al., Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine) — demonstrated that facial biometrics could predict OSA risk with:
With Soliish’s FaceX, a single selfie can:
And because it’s entirely digital, it can be deployed anywhere:
The misconception about large-scale screening is that it has to be one-size-fits-all. With AI, the opposite is true. This generates an individualized risk profile for each patient, guiding them to the right next step whether that’s reassurance, further monitoring, or immediate diagnostic testing.
Perhaps the most powerful impact of AI-driven facial screening is in equity. By removing reliance on symptom reporting or specialist access, we can reach populations historically excluded from OSA screening efforts people in rural areas, low-income communities, or places without robust healthcare infrastructure.
Scaling screening doesn’t mean losing the personal touch. In fact, it’s the opposite: the more people we can assess early, the more opportunities we have to personalize care and prevent the serious consequences of untreated sleep apnea.
