Comparison

MammoLoop vs Luma Health: single center recall or enterprise access

Luma Health belongs to the patient access platform category built for larger health organizations, while MammoLoop is sized for the independent center with one scheduler and two rooms.

The short answer

If you are part of a health system or a multi site imaging group solving access across many departments, referral routing and enterprise scheduling, you are in the patient access platform category and should evaluate Luma Health on those terms. MammoLoop is not that. It is one workflow for the independent breast center: build the annual due cohort, run the staged ladder, book from replies, recover the no shows, count the month. The trade is real. You get depth in one screening loop and none of the enterprise breadth, at a price a two room center approves without a committee.

MammoLoop and Luma Health side by side

Each row compares the two products on one part of the screening year: who builds the twelve month due cohort, who runs the text, letter and call ladder, who tracks the missed screenings, and what the front desk scheduler actually touches each morning.
What you are decidingMammoLoopLuma Health
Primary jobReturn every due and lapsed screening patient to the scheduleImprove patient access and communication across an organization
Organization size assumedOne center to a small network of women's imaging sitesLarger groups and health systems with multiple departments
Buying processA practice manager decides after a demo and a first recall batchTypically an organizational evaluation with several stakeholders
Configuration effortDefaults already set for the annual mammogram yearConfigured to the workflows of the organization adopting it
Screening specific logicDue month cohorts, attempt caps, callback separation, recovery queueGeneral access workflows applied across service lines
ReportingFour numbers a month: cohort, contacted, booked, keptBroader analytics across the access footprint
Pricing shapePublished monthly tiers, $99, $219 and $449Quoted per organization; ask them for current terms

The right hand side describes where Luma Health sits as a category and whose workflow it assumes. Both keep changing, so check the current shape of each one before you choose. MammoLoop is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.

Choose MammoLoop when

  • You run one or two centers and approve software without a committee.
  • Screening recall is the specific number you are trying to move this year.
  • Your scheduler needs a queue she can work today, not a rollout plan for the fall.
  • Nobody on staff has time to configure a platform around the mammography year.

Choose Luma Health when

  • You are solving access across many departments, not one screening loop.
  • Referral intake and organization wide scheduling are part of the same project.
  • Your group has the staff to run a broader platform implementation properly.

Scope is the whole decision here

Enterprise access platforms exist because large organizations have many front doors and no single view of them. That is a genuine problem worth solving with a big tool. An independent breast center has one front door, one schedule and usually one person answering the phone. The problem is not visibility across departments, it is that the annual due list is longer than the hours available to work it.

MammoLoop is shaped to that second problem. It assumes a small team, a RIS that was never built for recall, and a scheduler who needs the day to end with the queue counted. If your center is heading toward five or six sites with shared central scheduling, take the enterprise evaluation seriously. Below that, the narrow tool usually gets used, and the broad one usually gets configured for months.

What the scheduler touches each day

With MammoLoop the scheduler opens one queue in the morning. Replies to yesterday's texts sit at the top waiting for a slot, the second touch batch is staged and ready, and yesterday's no shows are already in the recovery lane with a suggested slot inside the same week. There is no dashboard to interpret and no report to run first.

That narrowness is the point. When outreach lives inside a wider platform, recall competes with everything else the practice is doing that day, and it loses, because nobody is waiting on the other end of an overdue mammogram. A dedicated queue with its own counts is what keeps recall from becoming the work that is always postponed until next week.

Growing into a network

Centers do grow. The Network tier exists for groups running several women's imaging sites that want one recall list with per site slot maps, so a patient near the second location is offered a slot she will actually drive to. Attempt history follows the patient rather than the site, which stops two schedulers calling the same woman on the same afternoon.

If your growth path includes central scheduling for many specialties beyond breast imaging, that is a different destination and an access platform may serve it better. We would rather say that now than have you outgrow us in an awkward year. Recall depth is what we sell, and it stays useful whether or not the rest of your stack changes.

Questions people ask before they choose

We are a two site women's imaging group. Which tier fits?

The Two Centers tier at $219 a month covers two locations with separate slot maps and one shared recall list. If you add a third site or need per site reporting for a wider group, the Network tier at $449 is the one to look at.

Does MammoLoop handle referrals from ordering providers?

Not as a referral inbox. It works the patients already in your screening population and the lapsed ones who stopped coming. Incoming orders from referring physicians stay in whatever pathway your RIS and front desk already use.

Can our schedulers keep using the phone the way they do now?

Yes. MammoLoop does not replace the phone, it decides who is worth calling and records what happened. The point is to cut sixty unstructured calls a week down to a short list of live calls that actually need a human voice.

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Put the recall queue next to what you run today

One head to head only goes so far on a page. Book half an hour, bring the last export your radiology information system produced, and we will stage a real annual screening batch against it while you watch. You will see exactly which part of your current setup MammoLoop takes over and which part it leaves completely alone.