Positive Conclusion to DMEA - Connecting Digital Health

DMEA - Connecting Digital Health26 - 28 April 2022, Berlin, Germany.
After three days DMEA, Europe's leading digital health event, came to a successful conclusion - with around 11,000 visitors, more than 500 exhibitors and 300 speakers from Germany and abroad. Participation in DMEA increased, with attendance four per cent higher than at the last in-person event before the pandemic in 2019.

From 26 to 28 April 2019 the focus on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds was on the digital transformation of the healthcare system. Federal Minister of Health and patron of the event Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach opened DMEA: "There can be no significant development of Germany’s healthcare system without us strategically expanding digitalisation. That is why I regard myself not only as minister responsible for health, but for digitalisation as well. DMEA is the leading trade fair on this subject. It is Europe's largest trade fair on digitalisation in healthcare and the first congress and trade fair I have visited in person after the difficult period of the pandemic."

In his keynote speech he talked about the electronic file supporting diagnoses, progress with the ePrescription, and the current strategic process involving all stakeholders. Altogether, some 300 speakers presented examples of their best practices at numerous lectures and sessions and discussed the pressing issues surrounding the digital transformation of the healthcare system. Among those who held keynote speeches were Israel’s Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz and Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger.

Gerrit Schick, CEO of the German Association of Health IT Vendors (bvitg), the organiser of DMEA, mentioned: "I saw the event as three days of fascinating encounters, valuable exchanges and sessions offering great insight. Numerous figures representing politics, business and healthcare were present, demonstrating that DMEA is the place to be when the subject turns to the digital transformation of the healthcare system. It is sheer impossible to single out any particular topic at the fair. The various subject areas are so dynamic and as a result there is huge pressure to display innovation. I am delighted that DMEA has developed measurably and for all to see, and that the long enforced break ended on such a positive note."

More than 500 exhibitors presented their innovations at DMEA - with topics ranging from telemedicine, AI applications, medical information systems, operating theatre technology, digital health applications to IT infrastructure and hardware. They included the DMEA Gold Partners CompuGroup Medical, Dedalus HealthCare, ID Information und Dokumentation im Gesundheitswesen, medatixx, Meierhofer, nexus AG and Telekom Healthcare Solutions.

Martin Ecknig, CEO of Messe Berlin, said: "The positive feedback from those who attended DMEA showed us how important exchanging views face-to-face was after the two-year break due to the pandemic. As the platform for digital healthcare, DMEA gathers everyone involved in the digital transformation of the healthcare system - ranging from digital solution providers and representatives of politics, local government and research, to users such as doctors and nurses."

The in-person event was supported by the DMEA online platform, which enabled users to network and find out about exhibitors. Many of the lectures from the DMEA events programme are available here as on-demand videos until the end of May.

The next DMEA is scheduled for 25 to 27 April 2023.

About DMEA

DMEA is Europe's leading event for health IT which gathers decision-makers from every area of the healthcare sector - including IT specialists, physicians, hospital and nursing care executives as well as experts from politics, science and research.

Every year, the DMEA dedicates a separate program to the central topic of "young talent and careers".

In 2020 and 2021, the DMEA could only take place digitally due the pandemic. In 2021, more than 4.000 participants registered for the digital version of DMEA, and around 2.500 viewers watched the program items every day.

In 2019 a total of 11,000 trade visitors came to DMEA to find out about the latest developments and products, acquire qualifications and establish important industry contacts.

The DMEA is organized by the Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT - bvitg e.V. (Federal Association for Health IT) and is hosted by Messe Berlin GmbH. The DMEA is also organized in cooperation with the industry associations GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology) e.V., BVMI (Professional Association of Medical Informatics) e.V. and with the content-related participation of KH-IT (Federal Association of Hospital IT Managers) e.V. and CIO-UK (Chief Information Officers - University Hospitals).

Most Popular Now

AI also Assesses Dutch Mammograms Better…

AI is detecting tumors more often and earlier in the Dutch breast cancer screening program. Those tumors can then be treated at an earlier stage. This has been demonstrated by...

RSNA AI Challenge Models can Independent…

Algorithms submitted for an AI Challenge hosted by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have shown excellent performance for detecting breast cancers on mammography images, increasing screening sensitivity while...

AI could Help Emergency Rooms Predict Ad…

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help emergency department (ED) teams better anticipate which patients will need hospital admission, hours earlier than is currently possible, according to a multi-hospital study by the...

Head-to-Head Against AI, Pharmacy Studen…

Students pursuing a Doctor of Pharmacy degree routinely take - and pass - rigorous exams to prove competency in several areas. Can ChatGPT accurately answer the same questions? A new...

NHS Active 10 Walking Tracker Users are …

Users of the NHS Active 10 app, designed to encourage people to become more active, immediately increased their amount of brisk and non-brisk walking upon using the app, according to...

Unlocking the 10 Year Health Plan

The government's plan for the NHS is a huge document. Jane Stephenson, chief executive of SPARK TSL, argues the key to unlocking its digital ambitions is to consider what it...

AI can Find Cancer Pathologists Miss

Men assessed as healthy after a pathologist analyses their tissue sample may still have an early form of prostate cancer. Using AI, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to...

How AI could Speed the Development of RN…

Using artificial intelligence (AI), MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently deliver RNA vaccines and other types of RNA therapies. After training...

AI, Full Automation could Expand Artific…

Automated insulin delivery (AID) systems such as the UVA Health-developed artificial pancreas could help more type 1 diabetes patients if the devices become fully automated, according to a new review...

MIT Researchers Use Generative AI to Des…

With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Using generative AI algorithms, the research...

AI Hybrid Strategy Improves Mammogram In…

A hybrid reading strategy for screening mammography, developed by Dutch researchers and deployed retrospectively to more than 40,000 exams, reduced radiologist workload by 38% without changing recall or cancer detection...

Penn Developed AI Tools and Datasets Hel…

Doctors treating kidney disease have long depended on trial-and-error to find the best therapies for individual patients. Now, new artificial intelligence (AI) tools developed by researchers in the Perelman School...