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50,000 hospitals just became accessible through your phone.
Microsoft dropped a bombshell this week with Copilot Health, and the healthcare industry is scrambling to understand what this means.
Here’s what just happened:
• Your entire medical history from 50,000+ U.S. hospitals, now in one place
• 50+ wearable devices feeding real-time health data
• Lab results explained in plain English
• Provider search by specialty, location, insurance, and language
• Harvard Health integration for verified medical insights
But here’s what’s really happening: We’re witnessing the birth of consumer-controlled healthcare intelligence.
💡 Think about this:
The average person spends 121 minutes yearly with their primary care doctor. Meanwhile, Copilot Health processes 50 million health queries daily. That’s not competition, it’s a complete reimagining of healthcare access.
With 39% of younger adults already trusting AI for basic health needs, we’re seeing a generational shift. Patients aren’t waiting for appointments to understand their lab results. They’re not calling offices to find specialists. They’re taking control.
The real disruption? When patients arrive informed, prepared, and empowered, the entire dynamic changes. Doctors become advisors, not gatekeepers. Healthcare becomes proactive, not reactive.
Yes, there are risks. Privacy concerns. The danger of self-diagnosis. The digital divide.
But ask yourself: If a patient in an underserved community can instantly access their complete medical history, interpret their lab results, and find in-network specialists who speak their language, haven’t we just solved a massive access problem?
The genie is out of the bottle. Microsoft reviewed this with 230+ physicians from 24 countries. They’re not replacing doctors, they’re empowering patients.
And that changes everything.
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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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