Overview
- Government officials announced on Tuesday that ISSSTE has put four 'Cuartos Azules' into operation to read mammograms remotely using AI-assisted workflows.
- Each center has six reading stations staffed by radiologists with breast-imaging specialty, and the four centers together can interpret more than 400,000 mammograms per year.
- Federal health agencies committed 13 billion pesos for 2026 to buy 32,000 devices, including 70 mammographs with AI, plus MRIs and linear accelerators to strengthen cancer care and imaging capacity.
- Images will be sent electronically from 98 units this year, with results returned to the originating clinic and plans to link those findings to electronic medical records as primary-care centers gain connectivity.
- Officials said the rollout builds on a multi-year nationalization of imaging services as part of the new Service Universal de Salud and that the network is slated to grow to about 180 mammography units by 2027.