Empowered Patient Podcast High-Tech CareStations Provide Primary Care to Underserved Communities with Karthik Ganesh OnMed
Karthik Ganesh, CEO at OnMed, is expanding access to healthcare through its CareStation, a self-contained medical pod that allows patients to receive comprehensive primary care services conveniently. The CareStation is designed to be easily deployed and operated in underserved communities, including rural areas, prisons, and foster care facilities. This scalable, hybrid approach provides a personalized examination using medical devices and cameras that allow a remote clinician to prescribe treatment and, if necessary, arrange for further actions.
Karthik explains, "The OnMed CareStation gives you the psychological comfort and the confidence of a comprehensive primary care visit. With the rapid scalability and the convenience of telemedicine, it essentially takes the best of both worlds between virtual care and traditional care while also neutralizing the inherent scalability weaknesses and experience weaknesses of both of those. This is why we look at OnMed really as a hybrid care company and the CareStation as a tech-enabled, hybrid care vehicle."
"Pretty much every day of the week without a wait, you can just walk in for care. It's cleaner than a doctor's office because, after every single visit, we use UVC lighting to clean out the CareStation. UVC has been known to essentially kill over 99.9% of viruses and bacteria inside of the CareStation. And then, finally, the third thing I would say that makes it unique is it's an extremely personalized experience. There are the reviews we've gotten back from the patients going into the CareStation, where they feel the interpersonal connection with a live clinician. Still, at the same time, they feel it's without any distractions of a doctor's office, people walking outside, the doctor coming in and out, and so on. They feel in that contained space, it's an extremely personalized and intimate conversation with the doctor, exactly as you would expect a highly personal doctor-patient relationship to be."
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