What is Telehealth?
Telehealth offers new ways of delivering care through the use of video and audio. The clinical opportunities provide many positive impacts that include better health outcomes, more immediate treatments, economic benefits and access to specialized care and consultation.
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2024 Rick Foster Primary Care Telehealth Champion Dr. Danette McAlhaney
My Telehealth
What is Telehealth? Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.Telehealth News on scetv.org
My Telehealth: The lasting impact of digital literacy training for seniors
At 95 years old, Mrs. Jessie Sinkler took a digital literacy class that changed…
My Telehealth: School-based health program helps child manage asthma
In Sumter, ten-year-old Zaire Warren suffered from severe asthma symptoms until…
My Telehealth: Teenager ‘found her strength’ to overcome eating disorder after treatment through telehealth
Over 30 million people suffer from an eating disorder in the United States.…
House-calls: Healthcare in the Digital Age
House-calls: Healthcare in the Digital Age takes a deep dive into the evolution of telehealth in America. Technology including high speed internet and smart devices has led to the rebirth of the house-call form of health care delivery. Today, doctors are now able to visit a patient virtually, wherever they are located- at home, school, or the workplace.
What is the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance (SCTA) and My Telehealth?
Through the human stories of patients, families, clinicians and others, SCETV, in collaboration with the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance, will carefully dissect the complexities of Telehealth.
The goal of each story is to elevate public understanding and knowledge of Telehealth and its diverse services in South Carolina.
The clinical opportunities within Telehealth provide many positive impacts that include better health outcomes, more immediate treatments, economic benefits and access to specialized care and consultation.
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