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Oatmeal Health was selected for MassChallenge’s 2023 HealthTech Cohort.
Oatmeal Health joins 37 startups invited to participate in this year’s program.
SAN DIEGO CA, MARCH 20TH, 2023 – Oatmeal Health was selected to participate in the MassChallenge 2023 HealthTech Sprint. Oatmeal Health was one of over 200 startup applications for this year’s program.
Jonathan Govette, Co-Founder / COO of Oatmeal Health
Jonathan Govette, Co-Founder / COO of Oatmeal Health
“Ty Vachon, M.D., and I are looking forward to working alongside Mass Challenge’s partners and fellow startups to build some remarkable innovations that will change the fabric of healthcare forever.”
By participating in this accelerator, Oatmeal Health will receive unrivaled access to a global network of partners, experts, and mentors. Throughout the program, we will join 37 startups that will benefit from integration into healthcare ecosystems through MassChallenge partnerships and the Medicare and Medicaid curriculum by MITRE to support federal opportunities.
What is Oatmeal Health:
Oatmeal Health is a tech-enabled clinical service focused on improving patient outcomes for underserved patient populations by providing AI-enabled early-detection cancer screenings and case management for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Health Plans.
Why did you create Oatmeal?
In 2013, Ty Vachon’s mother would have met the screening criteria to get a CT but she did not get scanned and in September of that year her stage 4 lung cancer was identified and she died shortly after. Jonathan Govette lost both his grandparents to lung cancer, and recently his mother died of another debilitating chronic disease.
The founders of Oatmeal Health decided it was time to change the status quo and make changes to how healthcare preventatively screens our loved ones so no one else has to die needlessly.
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About Oatmeal Health:
At Oatmeal, we partner with FQHCs to provide case management services that help make lung cancer screening more accessible to patients who face barriers due to social determinants of health. We plan to implement an AI-enabled, value-based lung cancer screening platform and fundamentally change the lives of underserved patients through early identification, engagement, and comprehensive high-touch virtual care. Oatmeal Health is veteran-owned and clinician-led, please visit www.oatmealhealth.com.
About MassChallenge
MassChallenge is a global network for innovators. Headquartered in the United States with eight locations worldwide, the non-profit’s mission is to help bold entrepreneurs disrupt the status quo and create sustainable change. Since launching in 2009, MassChallenge has run programs in 24 countries, supported more than 4,000 startups worldwide, and awarded over $18M in equity-free cash and prizes. Learn more about MassChallenge at masschallenge.org.
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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/
