Perceptions Toward Telemedicine of Health Care Staff in Nursing Homes in Northern Germany: Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Digitalization in the German health care system is progressing slowly, even though it offers opportunities for improvement of care. In nursing homes, most of the staff's work is paper based. Following the pandemic, there has been a decrease in the use of telemedicine applications.

[Determinants of the implementation of telemedicine in nursing homes: A qualitative analysis from Schleswig-Holstein].

Background: During the restrictions on human contact in the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing homes made a great effort to allow relatives, doctors and other persons involved in the care to communicate with residents. For this purpose, the HLTeleheim project offered a practical telemedical support option. This offer was accepted and implemented in a heterogeneous way.