Oatmeal Health - AI Lung Cancer Screening Startup for Underserved Patients

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Revolutionizing early cancer detection with AI-driven screening and navigation, trusted by FQHCs + Hospitals to close care gaps in underserved communities.

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I almost became a doctor. Then I became an engineer. Then I lost my grandfather to lung cancer, and several others in my family to cancer and chronic disease. That is why I built Oatmeal Health. Lung cancer kills more Americans than breast, colon, and prostate cancer combined. We screen fewer than 6% of the people who qualify. The patients most at risk are the ones with the least access: lower income adults, rural communities, people without a steady relationship with a primary care doctor. We built LungAI CADx to embed directly into radiology workflows and give clinicians a probability score on lung nodules, built for the health systems and FQHCs that serve the patients everyone else builds around. The biggest problems in cancer are not scientific. They are operational. We are fixing that. Happy to answer anything. And if you know someone who should be screened and has not been, share this with them.

Curious how you actually reach the underserved patients in the first place — like is the screening free or covered through partnerships with community clinics, and do patients need a referral to get started?