Making early lung cancer detection accessible to every community
Lung cancer is most treatable when it is found early. We help community health centers, hospitals, and imaging networks make sure the people they serve get that chance, every year.
Lung cancer screening saves lives. But almost no one gets screened.
Lung cancer kills about as many Americans as breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer combined. Screening with a low dose CT scan cuts lung cancer deaths by 20%, yet only 18% of eligible patients are ever screened, and just 6% at community health centers.
Built from personal loss, pointed at a solvable problem
Oatmeal Health started with a family, not a product. When Janet was 20, she was hit by a car and could never have children of her own. So she adopted a son, Jonathan Govette, our CEO.
Janet was the community events manager for the YMCA and the City of Santa Maria, and she brought Jonathan along. Watching her, he learned that communities are built one relationship at a time. “Building relationships was the most important skill she ever taught me,” he says.
Jonathan has since lost more than ten family members to cancer. In 2022, he put Janet’s lesson to work: build the relationships with community health centers, hospitals, and imaging teams that make sure eligible patients get screened in time.
"We are dedicated to ensuring that no family has to endure what mine did. Not because of where they live, what they earn, or what language they speak."
Jonathan Govette, Co-Founder and CEO
Why is the company named Oatmeal?
The name Oatmeal was chosen deliberately to stand out, to start conversations about preventive care, cancer screening, and the health challenges every family faces, and to signal that we are not a typical healthcare company. We believe the tools to save lives already exist. The missing piece is the infrastructure to reach the people who need them most and change the standard of care so fewer families lose someone to a cancer that could have been caught early.
Screening happens through people patients already trust
Most lung cancers are found late not because screening does not work, but because eligible patients are never told they qualify, never reached, or never make it to an appointment.
Relationships come first
Patients say yes to screening when the ask comes from a care team they know. We work through those teams, not around them.
Meet patients where they already get care
Most people who need screening already have a clinic they trust. We bring screening to that door instead of asking patients to find a new one.
Every year, not once
Screening only works when it is repeated. We stay with our partners and their patients year after year, until annual screening is routine.
More Americans qualify than ever. Screening has not caught up.
In 2021, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force lowered the screening age to 50 and the smoking history to 20 pack years, nearly doubling the number of Americans who qualify. Screening rates have barely moved.
The patients are known, the scanners exist, and the guidelines are clear. What is missing is the connection between them. That is the work we do.
We go where the need is greatest
Built for the care settings that carry the heaviest load: the health centers, hospitals, imaging teams, and life sciences companies working to close the screening gap.
Community Health Centers
We plug into existing workflows, identify every eligible patient, and handle outreach so care teams can focus on seeing people, not running reports.
Learn moreHospitals and Health Systems
Large panels of unscreened, high-risk patients who were never told they qualified. We find them, reach them, and bring them in for the scan.
Learn moreImaging Networks and Radiology
We build a consistent pipeline of referred, eligible patients so LDCT capacity is used for the communities it was meant to serve.
Learn morePharma, Medtech, and Biotech
Connecting companies developing therapies and diagnostics with the diverse, underserved patient populations they need for research and clinical programs.
Learn moreFounded by people who know the problem
Jonathan Govette
Built Oatmeal Health after losing more than ten family members to cancer.
Yuri Ahuja MD PhD
Harvard-trained physician and biostatistician with nearly a decade of research on machine learning and EHR risk prediction.
Ashish Basuray PhD
Former NIH National Cancer Institute researcher and Northwestern-trained chemist who previously co-founded PreScouter and Firstlook AI.
The problem is solvable. Let's solve it together.
Whether you run a health system, an imaging center, or a community clinic, we are looking for partners who believe early detection should reach every eligible patient. And if you want to help build it, we are hiring.