HOW IT WORKS

AI-Enabled Lung Cancer Screening as a Service for FQHCs and Payors

Oatmeal’s AI-enabled lung cancer screening service promotes access, health equity, and improves patient engagement for marginalized communities. Our clinical team provides end-to-end RADS case management to alleviate your workload.

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EARLY DIAGNOSIS SAVES LIVES

Know your members’ risk. Prevent late-stage Lung Cancer

Lung cancer causes more deaths than breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers combined.

85%

of lung cancer cases are diagnosed at late stages

Source: American Lung Cancer Society

When diagnosed early, the survival rate is high.

90%

When diagnosed late, the survival rate is low. 

10%

For women with a cumulative lifetime breast risk ≥ 20 percent that are considered high-risk.

The Process

Oatmeal’s lung cancer screening platform leverages AI, machine learning, and computer vision to improve screening compliance and outcomes for FQHCs and health plans.

Identify

We predict which patients have a 20-pack-year history by scrubbing EHR data with AI, then based on results conduct a shared-decision making visit with our clinical team to determine eligibility, coordinate scheduling, and transport to the imaging center.

Screen

We scrutinize the radiology report, and if a nodule is discovered, we apply our FDA-approved computer vision AI to generate a malignancy risk report which is reimbursable by CMS. By reconciling any differences, we can determine the appropriate course of action.

Re-Screen

Using specialized culturally appropriate patient education, smoking cessation classes, and incentives we ensure patients come back every 3, 6, or 12 months for a rescan. 

Artificial Intelligence

Our service includes access to pre-built AI capabilities that have been thoroughly vetted and trained on vast amounts of lung cancer data.

  • Machine Learning Patient Identification

By using machine learning, we are able to constantly monitor your patients’ medical records for any current or past illnesses as well as smoking history.

This information is crucial in identifying patients who are eligible for lung cancer screening as a 20-pack-year smoker, per USPSTF Guidelines, and developing personalized care plans specific to each patient’s needs.

  • Computer Vision Nodule Assessment

We assist with implementing an FDA-approved AI computer-aided diagnosis algorithm at the primary care health center that evaluates lung cancer CT scans nodules and assigns a malignancy risk score, utilizing various visual characteristics such as size, shape, and texture.

Based on the obtained score, we determine the subsequent course of action, including the recommended care path or rescreening schedule.

  • Generative AI Patient Education

Our approach involves creating educational messaging and videos that are tailored to the patient’s gender, age, language, culture, race, ethnicity, and community, taking into account their unique identity and background. By doing so, we aim to foster cultural sensitivity and improve patient compliance with preventive screenings.

Seeing someone who looks and speaks like the patient can help to establish trust and enhance the patient’s engagement in their healthcare journey.

Personalized Patient Engagement

Oatmeal provides comprehensive, fully managed services for patient engagement. Our patient engagement services are designed to optimize patient outcomes, deliver effective communication, and enhance patient satisfaction.

  • Shared Decision-Making Visits

Our healthcare team initiates contact with eligible patients to coordinate a CT scan appointment. We handle the entire scheduling process, considering all Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) factors, such as transportation and financial incentives, to enhance appointment adherence.

  • Smoking Cessation

Oatmeal Health offers one-on-one coaching via telemedicine from a trained healthcare professional up to 8x per year per eligible patient.

  • Culturally Appropriate Patient Education

Our services are flexible, utilizing either your pre-existing messaging platforms (EPIC, Care Message, etc) for text, video, email, telemedicine, and phone or our proprietary communication tools.

  • Fully Managed Case Management

Our process is fully managed, with no disruptions to existing processes, and very minimal interactions with your team. We offer a flexible engagement model that can be customized according to your level of involvement.

Seamless Integration

Prove value and drive outcomes quickly with a flexible integration approach.

  • System Agnostic

Oatmeal Health is system agnostic, our care team can work within any EHR and population health management software. (Epic, ECW, Athena, Azara, CareMessage)

  • Established EHR Partnerships

Accelerate delivery with pre-built EHR integrations with top EHR Vendors.

  • No New Data required

Our system thoroughly analyzes fields across multiple data sources, such as EHR screens and paper records, to accurately identify eligible patients according to USPSTF guidelines and the challenging pack year question.

  • No Data Cleaning

Designed for messy, unstructured, structured, and sparse data. 

Our Difference

No software to use, no logins required

  • We do not ask your staff to do “one more thing”

Primary Care Providers already have enough on their plate, and it will only get worse with time with additional screening requirements being added every year. Oatmeal is here to help take lung cancer screenings off your to-do list.

In the near future we plan to address all care gap screenings such as breast, colorectal, pancreatic, heart, and bones.

Cancer affects everyone

No matter who you are, everyone knows someone that is affected by chronic disease.  Let Oatmeal help reduce the impact and provide the life-saving screenings your members need.

$3.7 T

Chronic disease costs the United States $3.7 Trillion / year

60%

of adult Americans have at least one chronic disease

70%

Chronic disease is responsible for 7 out of 10 deaths in the United States

Let Oatmeal Health be a part of your care team

Oatmeal Health is the leading Patient Success Service supported by AI-Enabled Radiology and Comprehensive Patient Relationship Management (PRM). We utilize an evidence-based, collaborative care model that allows providers and health plans to offer preventative image-based lung cancer screening services at scale, saving lives and $237K per early detection.

Our first product is an end-to-end, integrated machine learning and computer vision lung cancer screening service that delivers virtual and in-person care for underserved Americans.

Oatmeal Health is veteran-owned and clinician-led.

Jonathan Govette

Founder and CEO

Join our community of FQHCs that trust Oatmeal Health to screen their patients for cancer

Oatmeal Health collaborates with nonprofits, companies, governments, and other organizations to address complex healthcare challenges on a national scale to screen for cancer.

Oatmeal Health Expands Cancer Screening Services to Arizona and Announces a Partnership with El Rio Health

Stigler Health & Wellness Center in Oklahoma Partners with Oatmeal Health

Oatmeal Health To Bring Innovation, Tech-Enabled Lung Cancer Screening to The Clinic in Oklahoma

What are partners are saying…

“Partnering with Oatmeal Health on this proof-of-concept project is important in terms of advancing lung cancer screening as a public health initiative. Equally important is bringing this opportunity to the patients we serve within the community health center movement who frequently suffer disproportionately, barriers to healthcare and lack of access to innovations in healthcare screening.”

Doug Spegman M.D.
Chief Clinical Officer, MSPH, FACP
El Rio Health
Arizona

“As the largest, rural Community Health Center in Oklahoma, one of the main focuses for our patients is access to affordable, quality care, with screenings being a big part of our primary and preventative mission. Our patients in rural areas often have many barriers to overcome, so partnering with Oatmeal will assist us in removing some of those barriers to provide the best possible access to lung cancer screenings available in the rural eastern portion of our state.”

Brooke Lattimore
COO
Health and Wellness Center
Oklahoma

“We are pleased to partner with Oatmeal Health on this proof-of-concept initiative. We are proud to continue our commitment to equitable access to innovative screening technology for all members of our community as a crucial step in ensuring that under-represented populations in Massachusetts receive the care they deserve.”

Padmaja Sastry
Senior Director, Digital Transformation
Lowell Community Health Center
Massachusetts