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Prisma and OnMed pitch ‘clinic in a box’ to City of Columbia to ease ED burden and serve unhoused residents
Summary
Prisma Health and OnMed presented an OnMed care-station model — an ADA-accessible, plug-and-play telehealth kiosk — citing deployments that reduced EMS calls and offering a subscription model; staff and council discussed partnerships, wraparound services and cost implications.
Lisa McFarland, vice president for OnMed and a clinical pharmacist, presented the OnMed care station as a turnkey option for expanding access to low-acuity care in Columbia.
"OnMed is a clinic in a box," McFarland said, describing a private, ADA-accessible 8-by-10 unit equipped with a digital stethoscope, otoscope, blood-pressure cuff, thermal scanner and a 65-inch video connection to a live clinician. She said visits run about 20 minutes and that the platform diagnoses and treats most everyday conditions on-site; mental-health consults will be added later this year. McFarland described deployments at South Carolina State University, homeless shelters and other host sites and said the system can serve patients as young as 2.
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