January 9, 2025
The health-focused innovations scale up, too. Probably the most potentially powerful invention I saw at the whole show was the OnMed CareStation. It’s essentially a portable clinic that can be dropped into rural areas or even in underserved communities in the middle of a city. Once the patient steps in, they’re greeted by a human health care professional on a life-size screen and guided through any number of diagnostic tests with the help of tools like a blood pressure cuff and an otoscope that drops down from the ceiling.
It’s basically a much more powerful and comprehensive version of doing a telehealth appointment on your phone. The whole thing just needs a power outlet to run and is internet-connected thanks to Starlink. But the company’s CEO Karthik Ganesh insists that the fancy kiosk is more than hardware.
“We have spent too much energy thinking tech is a silver bullet,” Ganesh told me and explained that OnMed’s CareStations redefine how people can get their health care needs met. In some cases, it gives people who live in health care deserts access to a doctor’s office they otherwise wouldn’t have.
Follow along as we continue to redefine the healthcare landscape and bring the OnMed CareStation to communities across the U.S.
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