Cancer Screening Outreach Guided by Machine Learning: The Benefits of Proactive Care

The authors thank department editor Jérémie Gallien, the associate editor, the reviewers, and the 2025 M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition Industry Judge Panel (Jillian Berry Jaeker, Nicolas Stier, and Théophane Weber) for their constructive comments and suggestions. The authors acknowledge Jim Urick for excellent technical and deployment support for the colorectal cancer screening program at Geisinger and Rebecca Maff for project management. The authors thank the Care Gaps Nurses team at Geisinger, which handles direct patient outreach. The authors are also grateful to Medial EarlySign, Ming Hu, and Michael Lingzhi Li for valuable discussions.