Baden-Württemberg is funding televisits in care facilities with 1.7 million euros

Baden-Württemberg is funding televisits in care facilities with 1.7 million euros

The use of televisits will effectively structure the cooperation between care facilities and doctors, improve the care of those in need of care, and reduce the burden on nursing staff. The state is funding six projects to further develop televisits in care facilities with around 1.7 million euros, according to a press release from the ministry. Social and Health Minister Manne Lucha commented on this in Stuttgart on August 15: “The use of televisits will effectively structure the cooperation between care facilities and doctors, thus improving the care of those in need of care and ensuring it more quickly. At the same time, this will help to reduce the burden on nursing staff.”

Specifically, televisit projects enable care facilities to conduct medical consultations virtually using modern technology. This means that residents of care facilities do not have to visit a doctor’s office and can still receive high-quality care. The projects address several key challenges in the field of long-term care: the shortage of skilled workers, cross-sector communication, the limited mobility of those in need of care and the need for efficient use of resources.

Important building block in the context of digitalization in care

Minister of Social Affairs and Health Manne Lucha: “Nurses and doctors in particular will work closely together in the projects to provide people in need of care with regular and reliable care. Televisits are an important building block in the context of digitalization in care.”

The six selected projects represent a variety of organizational structures. There are three larger project sponsors – the AOK Baden-Württemberg, the Medical Care Center II of the Reutlingen District Hospitals gGmbH and the Bodenseekreis District Office – who will carry out the televisit in several care facilities, and three project sponsors – the Diak Altenhilfe Stuttgart, Diakonie ambulant Schwarzwald-Baar e. V., Wohlfahrtswerk für Baden-Württemberg – who each have a single facility or outpatient service in mind.

To support the projects in networking and with ethical, technical or data protection issues, a steering group consisting of the State Competence Center for Care & Digitization, the Telemedicine Coordination Office and the Development Center for Growing Old Well GmbH was set up. Individual advice, support and coaching as well as individual topic-specific workshops are offered here.

In addition, an overall evaluation of the projects is being funded with the aim of systematically recording the financial costs of introducing televisits in long-term inpatient care and describing processes and structures for telemedical visits in long-term care. The findings from the projects, the steering group and the evaluation are intended to serve to further advance the adoption of televisits in standard care.

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