DMEA nova Award: Looking for the Best Idea for Digital Healthcare

DMEA - Connecting Digital Health8 - 10 April 2025, Berlin, Germany.
Innovative startups from the digital health sector can now apply for the DMEA nova Award 2025. We are looking for the best idea or solution that will significantly advance the healthcare sector.

With the DMEA nova Award, the DMEA, Europe's leading event for digital health, is focusing on outstanding solutions for digital healthcare. The award gives startups the opportunity to present their pioneering concepts to healthcare experts and a panel of specialist judges. The aim is to shape the future of healthcare while creating valuable networking opportunities.

Call for Ideas until 18 February 2025

Startups that are no more than five years old (founded in 2021 or later) can now apply with their innovative ideas and solutions. The following four focus topics are available this year:
  • Focus: Rethinking sustainability
  • Focus: Patients
  • Focus: Technology of tomorrow - Digital. Precise. Personal.
  • Focus: Care models of the future

Startups can only apply in one of the above-mentioned subject areas; multiple applications are not possible. Applications for the Call for Ideas can be submitted in German or English; the presentations and pitches at the DMEA must be held exclusively in English.

All applications will be assessed by a high-calibre jury of experts. In mid-March, 20 startups will be nominated and given the opportunity to present their concepts and approaches in the live pitches at the DMEA.In the final pitch on 10 April, the most convincing idea will receive the DMEA nova Award. The winning startup will receive the DMEA nova Prize Kit worth 7,500 euros.

Networking and attention for 'the young and wild'

The DMEA nova Award offers more than just a platform for innovations. Startups can come into direct contact with potential partners, investors and customers and network optimally in the digital health industry.

A look back: The premiere 2024

The DMEA nova Award for the outstanding idea or solution from a digital health startup was presented for the first time at DMEA 2024: Exploris Health from Switzerland was able to impress with its AI-based solution for efficient and targeted diagnostics for coronary artery disease (CAD).

In the DMEA interview, Manuel Römer, member of the Executive Board of Exploris Health, talks about what happened after winning the DMEA nova Award and what he recommends to startups who also want to apply.

The closing date for applications for the DMEA nova Award 2025 is 18 February.

All information on the DMEA nova Award and the application process can be found on the DMEA website.

About DMEA

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

18,600 participants attended DMEA 2024, around 800 exhibitors presented their innovative solutions and over 350 speakers took to the DMEA stages.

In 2023, around 16,200 participants, 735 exhibitors and more than 300 national and international speakers took part at the DMEA.

The DMEA is organized by the Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT - bvitg e.V. (Federal Association for Health IT) and is hosted by Messe Berlin GmbH. It is 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).

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