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Oatmeal Health, a Patient Success Service supported by AI-Enabled Imaging for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries, announced today a new partnership with the Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center FQHC (The Clinic) to bring tech-enabled lung cancer screenings to their patients.
“We founded Oatmeal Health in May 2022 and in just a few months are in partnership conversations with FQHCs in 5 states and counting,” said Jonathan Govette, Oatmeal Health’s CEO, and co-founder. “We are excited to work alongside Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center at 10 locations in Ada, Konawa, Stratford, and Seminole to meet their patients’ most pressing lung cancer screening needs, and the response from their staff has been overwhelmingly positive.”
Currently, lung screening rates hover at around 4 percent nationally versus 70% for breast cancer. There is a multitude of reasons why lung cancer lags behind education and access, even though it takes more lives annually in the U.S. than the next three deadliest cancers combined, breast, prostate, and pancreatic.
Oatmeal Health strives to be a truly white-glove, concierge service, offering our support without FQHC’s shouldering the burden or cost. They will identify eligible patients and facilitate local CT scanner logistics. By leveraging a virtual nodule clinic model, they will ensure proper follow-up or referral and supplement image evaluation with AI.
Culturally sensitive educational material and engagement solutions will be utilized to ensure repeat annual visits, with the goal of empowering individuals from historically underserved communities with early detection so no one has to live with a life-threatening late-stage disease.
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About Oatmeal Health:
Oatmeal Health is the leading Patient Success Service supported by AI-Enabled Imaging 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 cancer screening services at scale, saving lives and $235K per early detection.
Our first product is an end-to-end, integrated lung cancer screening service that delivers care for traditionally underserved Americans.
Please visit www.oatmealhealth.com
About The Clinic – Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center (FQHC):
The Clinic @ Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center, or “The Clinic,” is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) meeting a stringent set of requirements, including care services on a sliding-fee scale based on federal poverty guidelines. Governed by a board of directors, including patient directors, The Clinic remains thoroughly invested in the needs of patients and its service areas. The Clinic currently operates in four Oklahoma communities – Konawa, Ada, Stratford, and Seminole. To learn more about The Clinic, The Women’s Clinic, and The Kid’s Clinic, please visit www.cofmc.com
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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
Substack:
https://oatmealhealthjonathangovette.substack.com/
