SCTA Statewide Strategic Plan

1. Service Extension

Objective: All citizens of South Carolina will have equitable access to ambulatory care. 

Telehealth modalities will be used in the ambulatory setting to extend the reach of services that would otherwise be limited by travel and related barriers to care.

Service Extension Example Services: Ambulatory Telehealth Visits, Regional Telehealth Clinics, Outpatient Telepsychiatry, eConsults 

2. Hospitals Support

Objective: Every community hospital in our state will have access to telehealth partnerships that enhance its services and its finances.

These Hospital Services represent partnerships that extend care between hospitals using telehealth with a focus of connecting resources from larger urban hospitals to community hospitals throughout the state.

Hospital Support Example Services: Neurosciences, Tele-ICU, Inpatient Specialty Tele-Consultation including: Infectious Disease, Psychiatry, Palliative Care, Hospitalist, Cardiology, Pulmonology

3. Convenient Care

Objective: All citizens in South Carolina will have affordable and immediately available patient-initiated virtual urgent and other health system-entry level care from an in-state provider.

Convenient Care services are designed to engage individual patients through their own available devices in order to optimize utilization and maximize healthcare engagement. 

Convenient Care Example Service: Virtual Urgent Care

4. Primary Care Support

Objective: All primary care clinics in the state, with emphasis on Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), will have access to integrated services through telehealth partnerships.

These services are intended to support the mission of the primary care clinic as a medical home, emphasizing the importance of local health care infrastructure while mitigating gaps in access to supporting resources. 

Primary Care Support Example Services: Project ECHO/Telementoring, Nutrition Counseling, Diabetes Remote Patient Monitoring, Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

5. Health Equity

Objective: Targeted, novel initiatives will close the gap in access to health care services for high-priority health disparities.

Health Equity services will progress towards achieving health equity across the state in specifically identified areas of health disparity.

Health Equity Example Services: School-Based Telehealth, Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health, Medication Assisted Treatment Telehealth (Tele-MAT), Maternal Fetal Medicine, Health Care for the Homeless, Pediatric Intensive Care Telehealth, Telehealth Resilience and Recovery Program