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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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My Telehealth: School-based mental health services remove barriers to care, improve healthcare outcomes for students

Millions of young people are affected by mental health conditions including ADHD, conduct disorders, and depression and anxiety. Research shows that one in six school-aged children experience a mental...

Teenager 'Found Her Strength' to Overcome Eating Disorder After Treatment Through Telehealth

A teenage girl sits alone in her room, phone in hand. She stares down at the different links in the search results: “Why am I not losing weight when I don’t eat?” Over 30 million people suffer from an...

School-based mental health services remove barriers to care, improve healthcare outcomes for students

At Liberty Hill Academy in North Charleston, students pop in and out of the school clinic all day long to see their nurse Lauren Sailor. “If the kids are not getting medicine from me, they’re coming...

School-based Health Program Helps Child Manage Asthma

“It works, it’s better now,” Zaire said. "I like to sing and I like to dance and I can dance now, without my chest hurting.” In Sumter, ten-year-old Zaire Warren suffered from severe asthma symptoms...

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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