Challenges and conditions for successfully implementing and adopting the telematics infrastructure in German outpatient healthcare: A qualitative study applying the NASSS framework.

Background: Germany's healthcare system provides high-quality, universal health coverage to almost all residents. However, a major challenge lies in the strong separation of healthcare structures, which hinders efficient interprofessional and intersectoral communication and collaboration. The mandatory nationwide implementation of the telematics infrastructure may offer a solution to enhance healthcare professionals' communication and collaboration.

[Analysing the Need for Long-Term Care: Potential of Data from Long-Term Care Assessments of the Bavarian Medical Service for Public Health Research and Practice].

Background: Despite demographic changes, there is still no systematic and comparable differentiation of nursing care reporting on a small-scale level in Germany, where outpatient long-term care is depicted. This article presents findings of care assessment data of the Medical Service of Bavaria and draws conclusions for future reporting on nursing.

Methods: For the analysis, anonymised initial long-term care assessments of the Bavarian Medical Service of 2019 were evaluated exemplarily using descriptive methods.

[Implementation of fall sensors in long-term care : An interview study to identify promoting and inhibiting factors from the perspective of professional caregivers].

Background And Objective: Digital support systems are becoming increasingly more important in long-term inpatient care facilities. Welfare technologies have the potential to make a valuable contribution to maintaining independence in advanced age. At the same time the technologies can support professional caregivers.

Conceptualizing Interprofessional Digital Communication and Collaboration in Health Care: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

Background: Effective communication and collaboration among health professionals are essential prerequisites for patient-centered care. However, interprofessional teams require suitable structures and tools to efficiently use their professional competencies in the service of high-quality care appropriate to the patient's life situation. In this context, digital tools potentially enhance interprofessional communication and collaboration and lead to an organizationally, socially, and ecologically sustainable health care system.