What Notable Reported About Sturdy Health's Breast Screening Outreach
Notable published an account on 1 October 2026 of Sturdy Health using automated outreach to close breast cancer screening gaps. Reporting Sturdy Health's data across two outreach efforts, it says 940 patients were contacted and 11.6 percent engaged, that 77 percent of those who engaged completed the scheduling form, that 72 percent of engaged patients booked a mammogram, that 100 percent of appointments were booked by patients themselves with no manual staff outreach, and that everyone who rated the experience rated it positively. Omar Siddiqui, director of primary care at Sturdy Health, is quoted in the piece saying the programme is preventing breast cancer and that these patients are getting screened when they would not have been.
Why the Notable and Sturdy Health Results Matter to Care Gap Programs
Read the funnel rather than the headline rates. An 11.6 percent engagement rate on 940 patients means roughly 109 people engaged, so the 72 percent conversion is a strong rate on a small base, and the whole exercise produced a modest number of mammograms. That is still worth doing, because it cost no staff calls at all, which is the real finding here. One framing needs care: screening does not prevent breast cancer, it finds it earlier, when treatment is usually simpler and more effective. The quoted claim is the health system's own words, and the measured result is appointments booked rather than any outcome.
Where the Notable Health Update Comes From
Notable is the original record behind this update. It tells us what the company published. This brief adds the market context and the method we would use to test the development against other evidence.
How We Would Research the Notable Sturdy Health Results
The source gives us the starting point. This is how we would build the next layer of research around it.
- We would ask Sturdy Health how many of those booked mammograms were actually completed, since a booking is not a scan.
- Then we would ask what happened to the 88 percent who did not engage and whether staff followed up by other means.
- We would ask how the patient list was built, because a care gap list that is out of date wastes most of the outreach before the software is involved.