Karthik Ganesh, CEO of OnMed and a seasoned healthcare executive, explores innovative solutions for healthcare access. He shares his extensive experience spanning payers and provider-sponsored plans, revealing how his passion for equity drives his work. The conversation dives into OnMed's 'clinic in a box,' which combines in-person visits and telemedicine in a compact space, simplifying patient interactions. Karthik discusses the broader mission to deploy these stations as vital public health infrastructure, aiming to bridge care gaps in underserved communities.
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Hybrid Solves The Access Ceiling
Traditional clinics and telemedicine have both hit natural ceilings for scaling access to care.
A hybrid model that combines in-person diagnostics with remote clinicians can bridge comprehensiveness and scalability.
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Clinician Shortage Limits Brick‑And‑Mortar
The U.S. is producing far fewer clinicians than needed while many existing clinicians are retiring or burned out.
This clinician shortfall makes traditional brick-and-mortar expansion infeasible at scale.
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Data Limits Telemedicine Trust
Telemedicine adoption peaked but struggles because it often lacks vitals, scans, and diagnostics.
Without objective data, telemedicine feels less clinical and adoption declines.
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Access to healthcare in the U.S. is broken, with millions forced to choose between essential needs and seeing a doctor. Traditional clinics are too costly to scale, and telemedicine has hit adoption limits. In this episode of CareTalk, John Driscoll sits down with Karthik Ganesh, CEO of OnMed, to discuss how OnMed’s “clinic in a box” is expanding access to care. Ganesh shares his journey across healthcare, why access has always been his passion, and how OnMed’s innovative care stations blend the trust of in-person visits with the scalability of telemedicine to address one of the nation’s most pressing healthcare challenges.
🎙️⚕️ABOUT KARTHIK GANESH Karthik is drawn toward companies that want to challenge the status quo. With a focus on tech-enabled healthcare services, he's built and transformed companies, delivered market-leading results, created significant enterprise and investor value, developed high-performing teams, and driven meaningful M&A transactions with strategic investors and private equity.
He's had the privilege of touching our healthcare ecosystem from most angles including payers (Aetna, Cigna), PBMs (EmpiRx Health, Express Scripts), provider-sponsored plans + ACOs + value-based care (QualCare, CareAllies), consulting (EY, Deloitte)...and now OnMed.
Making healthcare more accessible is a hugely important purpose that drew Karthik to OnMed. He is the CEO of OnMed, a tech-enabled hybrid care company that is partnering with public and private organizations to reimagine healthcare access in underserved communities across America. OnMed was the top pick at CES 2025 and is a 2025 Inc. 5000 company.
A prolific writer and speaker on healthcare, leadership, and resilience, Karthik has been featured in leading industry journals and podcasts. He is also the author of The Happiness Model: A Roadmap to Inner Peace.
🎙️⚕️ABOUT CARETALK CareTalk is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy.
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