A digital health intervention that delivers information directly to patients outside clinical visits could improve lung cancer screening rates compared with enhanced usual care, trial findings suggest.

The mPATH-Lung digital intervention showed an impact across demographic and socioeconomic groups and could help overcome barriers to access among underserved populations.

The findings, in JAMA , also highlight how integrating digital tools into healthcare can enable patient portals and text messaging to deliver outreach programs directly to patients in a way that may improve the uptake of preventive care.

In an editorial accompanying the findings, Lauren Kearney, MD, from Boston University Medical Center, and colleagues acknowledge the promise of the digital intervention but noted the

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