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The 40% of cancers we catch but never treat just got a solution.
Yesterday, Azra AI acquired Thynk Health, creating something we desperately need: a bridge between finding cancer and actually treating it.
Here’s the brutal reality:
Radiologists detect incidental findings in millions of scans annually. But up to 40% of these findings, including potential cancers, never receive follow up care. Patients fall through the cracks between detection and treatment.
Why? Because our systems don’t talk to each other.
The radiologist sees it.
The report gets filed.
The primary care doctor might miss it.
The patient never knows.
Months pass.
Opportunities vanish.
🎯 What makes this acquisition different:
Azra AI specializes in enterprise platforms for managing incidental findings across radiology and pathology. Thynk Health focuses specifically on lung cancer screening workflows. Together, they’re building an AI powered safety net that automatically flags findings, coordinates care teams, and ensures patients get from scan to treatment.
Think about it: We have AI that can detect Stage 1A lung nodules with incredible accuracy. Another recent study showed AI catching 50% of missed early stage lung cancers on routine chest X rays.
But detection without action is just expensive screening.
This isn’t about replacing doctors. It’s about closing the loop. When a radiologist identifies a concerning finding, the system automatically triggers care coordination, schedules follow ups, and tracks outcomes.
For health systems drowning in imaging volume, this could transform cancer survival rates. For FQHCs managing complex populations, it means fewer patients lost to follow up. For imaging centers, it’s a competitive differentiator that improves outcomes.
The technology exists. The AI works. Now we’re finally connecting the dots between seeing cancer and treating it.
That’s the kind of acquisition that actually saves lives.
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CEO/Co-Founder @ Oatmeal Health | AI Lung Cancer Screening | Almost Became a Doctor | Engineer | Follow to Share What I’ve Learned Along the Way
I help patients get the care they need earlier, preventing late-stage cancer.
That’s been the throughline across three companies and almost 20 years in healthcare. At ReferralMD, we fixed broken referral networks so patients didn’t fall through the cracks. At Oatmeal Health, it’s lung cancer: building the diagnostic and screening infrastructure so the 85% of cases caught too late get caught early instead.
Today as CEO of Oatmeal Health, I lead a team embedding AI into radiology workflows to turn routine lung CT scans into reimbursable cancer risk assessments. We partner with FQHCs to reach underserved communities, and with health systems and payers to make early detection economically sustainable. Think HeartFlow or Cleerly, but for lungs.
Between companies, I advised at Techstars and Plug and Play, mentoring founders building in digital health. That experience shaped how I think about what separates companies that ship from companies that stall: distribution, reimbursement, and clinical trust, not just technology.
I’m a CancerX alumnus, a 3x healthcare founder, and someone who believes the biggest problems in cancer aren’t scientific. They’re operational.
We’re hiring mission-driven builders at Oatmeal Health. If you want to work on something that matters, reach out.
When I’m not working, I’m traveling, mentoring, and keeping up with one very energetic husky. 🐾
Substack – The Oatmeal Bite:
Millions of patients get less care because of who they are, where they live, or how they look. I’m fighting to change that. CEO @OatmealHealth, a startup built for the underserved. The Oatmeal Bite: intel for clinicians, investors, and advocates.
Jonathan Govette
CEO of Oatmeal Health
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