In an article published by Kiosk Marketplace, OnMed CEO Karthik Ganesh highlights how OnMed's CareStation™ is helping close healthcare access gaps as telehealth adoption accelerates nationwide.
The following summarizes key points and perspectives from the original article featured in Kiosk Marketplace that was originally published on March 3, 2026 by Richard Slawsky.
"The OnMed CareStation is an 8×10-foot 'Clinic-in-a-Box' designed to expand healthcare access for the roughly 120 million Americans who lack adequate care. It combines one-on-one clinical consultation with the scalability of virtual care." — Karthik Ganesh, OnMed CEO (As quoted in Kiosk Marketplace, March 3, 2026)
Physician shortages are growing. Costs are rising. And access to care remains uneven across the country, regardless of how much people want to get well. The article examines exactly this problem—and the answer OnMed has been deploying across seven states and Puerto Rico.
Kiosk Marketplace's feature profiled the OnMed CareStation™, the tech-enabled, AI-powered, and always human-delivered "Clinic-in-a-Box" that combines one-on-one clinical consultation with the scalability of virtual care. About 80% of patients who use the CareStation don't have a primary care provider—for many, it becomes their medical home.
The CareStation integrates diagnostics, vital sign monitoring, and remote consultation into a single encounter—a hybrid care model that combines in-person clinical experience with telehealth scalability.
Licensed clinicians can prescribe medications when it's clinically appropriate to do so, and about 44% of CareStation patients present with a chronic condition—many of them receiving consistent care for the first time.
The CareStation is currently placed in trusted community locations that people already visit regularly—libraries, community and senior centers, employer sites, schools, and government facilities—across Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Nevada, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico, with expansion underway.
Ganesh was direct with Kiosk Marketplace about where the need extends beyond rural America:
"Rural communities are critical, but access challenges extend well beyond geography. Approximately 80% of U.S. counties experience some form of healthcare access gap. Healthcare deserts also include urban and suburban areas where long wait times, clinician shortages, high costs or cultural barriers limit access."
That reach is possible because of how fast a CareStation goes live: 45 days, requiring only an electrical outlet, with no construction and no permits.
The article ties access directly to cost. The U.S. faces a shortage of more than 200,000 physicians and clinicians, and emergency department treatment can cost more than ten times a physician office visit for similar conditions—costs that traditional clinics, with their high capital requirements, aren't built to absorb at scale.
The CareStation is designed to redirect that spending: across OnMed's broader deployment base, 86% of visits are resolved on-site without a referral, and 58% of patients say they would otherwise have gone to an emergency room or urgent care center for the same issue.
Asked what the CareStation ultimately represents, Ganesh didn't frame it as a replacement for anything:
"This is not about replacing traditional clinics or telehealth—it's about filling the gap between them. Many communities lack reliable broadband for video visits, while virtual care alone cannot provide diagnostics or vitals monitoring. Meanwhile, traditional facilities face scalability limits and workforce constraints."
For employers, that means improved productivity and lower healthcare costs. For schools, reduced absenteeism. For health systems, fewer unnecessary emergency visits and less clinician burnout. For governments, scalable access in the communities that need it most.
Kiosk Marketplace's own reporting adds one more data point on why this moment matters: the global telehealth kiosk market is projected to grow nearly 20% annually through 2030, according to Grand View Research—a category moving from pilot to infrastructure, with OnMed already positioned inside it.
Kiosk Marketplace is a trade publication owned by Networld Media Group, covering self-service and kiosk technology for executives and decision-makers across healthcare, retail, banking, hospitality, and government—the audience evaluating what comes next in customer-facing technology.
OnMed is transforming how the world accesses healthcare. With its patented OnMed CareStation™, an 8×10 foot "Clinic-in-a-Box", OnMed delivers comprehensive, immediate care wherever people live, work, and learn. The OnMed CareStation is a tech-enabled, AI-powered, and human-delivered platform that blends the comprehensiveness of traditional in-person care with the rapid scalability of telemedicine. Each CareStation serves as a local access point within a scalable, connected grid that delivers everyday healthcare at scale.
Powered by public-private partnerships across insurers, healthcare providers, governments, employers, and educational institutions, OnMed is redefining healthcare access, closing critical gaps, restoring trust, and strengthening the health and economic resilience of communities everywhere. Learn more at www.onmed.com.
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