{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What About Rural Health?™","title":"Redesigning Rural Healthcare: Affordable Innovations That Save Lives | Karthik Ganesh","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3082,"description":"ABOUT THIS EPISODE\nWhat happens when healthcare comes to the patient instead of forcing the patient to travel for care? In this episode, Chinasa U. Imo speaks with Karthik Ganesh, Chief Executive Officer of OnMed, about redesigning rural healthcare through affordable, practical technology that brings clinical services closer to where people live, work, and gather.\nThe conversation examines how the OnMed CareStation combines real time access to licensed clinicians with integrated diagnostic tools and a connected care model. It also explores how this approach can help address provider shortages, long travel distances, delayed care, and limited access to primary healthcare in rural and underserved communities.\nListeners will hear a grounded discussion about building healthcare technology that is useful, scalable, financially sustainable, and designed around the realities of communities that have historically had fewer options for care.\nABOUT THE GUEST\nKarthik Ganesh is the Chief Executive Officer of OnMed. He is a healthcare executive whose work spans health plans, pharmacy services, health technology, third party administration, provider sponsored services, and value based care. At OnMed, he leads the expansion of the CareStation model, which helps organizations deliver quality healthcare in rural, remote, and other care challenged settings.\nIN THIS CONVERSATION\n• Why traditional healthcare delivery models leave many rural communities without timely care\n• How the OnMed CareStation connects patients with licensed clinicians and diagnostic tools\n• What affordable healthcare innovation looks like in practice\n• How health technology can respond to workforce shortages and healthcare deserts\n• Why partnerships matter when bringing care closer to communities\n• What it takes to build a scalable clinic without walls\n\nRESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE\nLearn more about OnMed: https://www.onmed.com/\nWATCH THE EPISODE\n\nREAD THE TRANSCRIPT\n\nABOUT WHAT ABOUT RURAL HEALTH?™\nWhat About...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jte0PgK0uRdrF7H-HQWlXSgivnymvqAwWGy2VMzKnnk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTRi/NTk2ZjY3NGQzMmJl/NzY1ZjYwMWMzMjU5/YjhkNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}