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).

Most Popular Now

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...

Alcidion Grows Top Talent in the UK, wit…

Alcidion has today announced the addition of three new appointments to their UK-based team, with one internal promotion and two external recruits. Dr Paul Deffley has been announced as the...

New Training Year Starts at Siemens Heal…

In September, 197 school graduates will start their vocational training or dual studies in Germany at Siemens Healthineers. 117 apprentices and 80 dual students will begin their careers at Siemens...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Are You Eligible for a Clinical Trial? C…

A new study in the academic journal Machine Learning: Health discovers that ChatGPT can accelerate patient screening for clinical trials, showing promise in reducing delays and improving trial success rates. Researchers...

Global Study Reveals How Patients View M…

How physicians feel about artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has been studied many times. But what do patients think? A team led by researchers at the Technical University of Munich...

New AI Tool Addresses Accuracy and Fairn…

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed a new method to identify and reduce biases in datasets used to train machine-learning algorithms...

AI Analysis of Colonoscopy Improves Asse…

In a new study, artificial intelligence (AI) matched and potentially exceeded the performance of gastroenterologists and conventional scoring in evaluating endoscopies of Crohn’s disease patients. The results, published in Clinical Gastroenterology...