S.C. Code Ann. § 40-15-500: Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Asynchronous transmission" means store and forward technology that allows a licensee to transmit a patient's health information to another licensee for viewing at a later time.

(2) "Current radiographic records" means radiographs or images taken contemporaneously with an in-person examination.

(3) "Distant site" means the location of the site where a licensee is providing teledentistry services to a patient located at an originating site.

(4) "Emergent care" means treatment of pain, infection, or any other intraoral or perioral condition that presents immediate harm to the well-being of the patient and for which treatment cannot be postponed.

(5) "Originating site" means the location of the site where a patient is receiving teledentistry services from a licensee at a distant site.

(6) "Public health program" means a program approved by the board or any program administered by:

(a) the Department of Health and Human Services;

(b) a health district; or

(c) a school district.

(7) "Teledentistry" has the same meaning and may be used interchangeably with the term "telehealth" as defined in Section 40-42-10(5). The term includes, without limitation:

(a) real-time interactions between a patient at an originating site and a licensee at a distant site;

(b) the asynchronous transmission of medical and dental information concerning a patient from an originating site to a licensee at a distant site;

(c) interaction between a licensee who is providing dental services to a patient at an originating site and another licensee at the originating site; and

(d) monitoring of a patient at an originating site by a licensee at a distant site.