SCTA Training & Education

Education Workgroup

The education workgroup conducts statewide education, training, and promotion to providers and the public to accelerate and spread adoption of telehealth. The workgroup strives to provide relevant cutting-edge training and education for providers using telehealth technologies to care for their patients, as well as those who are receivers of telehealth services in different settings, including community hospitals, primary care and specialty offices, schools, skilled nursing facilities, and prisons. Palmetto Care Connections and South Carolina AHEC serve as co-leads for the education work group.

SCTA-MUSC Education

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is currently developing a comprehensive Telehealth Education Roadmap. This roadmap serves as a structured curriculum designed to enhance knowledge and skills in telehealth across various roles. The first module in the series, Telehealth 101, provides foundational insights into telehealth practices, covering essential concepts including social determinants of health and telehealth benefits, risks, and barriers. Access the Telehealth 101 module here.

Palmetto Care Connections

 

Palmetto Care Connections (PCC) provides technology, broadband, and telehealth support serves to health care providers in rural and underserved areas in South Carolina. PCC works to coordinate existing telehealth activities, expand successful models, develop new applications, assist providers in navigating telemedicine implementation, advocate for reimbursement by all payors, and serve as a resource for telehealth information for South Carolinians.

As the leader of South Carolina’s health care broadband consortium, PCC can help providers learn more about and connect to a dedicated, secured, high capacity network with connection capabilities for health care data, medical images, telehealth, bridge access, electronic health records, and more. Eligible health care providers can save up to 65% on broadband, internet, and network equipment costs.

PCC also hosts the annual South Carolina Telehealth Summit, regional telehealth meetings, monthly Telehealth Webinar Wednesdays, and other educational and training programs.

South Carolina AHEC

The South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC) offers telehealth education opportunities to health professions students and health professionals. As part of South Carolina AHEC's efforts to address the training and maldistribution of health professionals in rural and underserved areas of the state, its telehealth education programs enable providers to implement telehealth services and health professions students to enter the workforce prepared to adopt telehealth, therefore expanding healthcare access to the areas that need it the most.

South Carolina AHEC offers on-ground, distance and on-demand educational opportunities for training through its four regional AHEC centers and online learning portal. South Carolina AHEC also partners with other SCTA members to expand the reach of educational programming statewide.

Project Echo Telementoring

The SCTA is leading a statewide Project ECHO telementoring initiative as well as providing comprehensive training and education on topics that span all facets of telehealth. Some of the educational resources cover workflows, protocols, billing, certification, and licensing.