8 - 10 April 2025, Berlin, Germany.DMEA 2025 came to a successful close with record attendance and an impressive program. 20,500 participants attended Europe's leading digital health event over the three days of DMEA to learn about the latest developments in digital healthcare, discover innovative solutions and network with experts from around the world.
With around 900 exhibitors from almost 30 countries, more than 470 speakers and over 200 sessions, DMEA 2025 once again set new records and confirmed its role as Europe's leading platform for digital health.
Digital health in focus: AI, electronic health records and interoperability
The core topics of this year's DMEA reflected the key challenges and opportunities of digitalization in healthcare: artificial intelligence, electronic health records (EHR), interoperability, the use of health data, data security and the digitalization of care were the focus of the congress, the seminars and the exhibitors. There was equally strong interest in practical use cases, innovative products and forward-looking visions among trade visitors from the fields of care, industry, science and politics.
Strong political signals - digitalization as a joint task
One highlight was the keynote address by the Federal Minister of Health, Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, on the first day of DMEA. He has once again taken on the patronage of DMEA and said in conclusion: "DMEA is a central component of the digital health revolution. It connects the players who are bringing digitalization to healthcare - where it has an effect. Projects such as electronic patient files, e-prescriptions or telemedicine show: digitalization is not an end in itself, but the key to better health care, more efficient processes and more patient safety."Melanie Wendling, Managing Director of bvitg e.V.: "The teams from bvitg and Messe Berlin have outdone themselves again this year: the stage design, the supporting program, DMEA sparks and DMEA nova - it's great to see how DMEA continues to develop and grow every year. It's hard to imagine the industry without DMEA. Now it's time to put the solutions presented here into practice."
Dr. Mario Tobias, CEO of Messe Berlin, also emphasized the importance of DMEA as the industry's central innovation platform: "DMEA is supported by a dedicated digital health community working together on outstanding solutions for modern and digital healthcare. We are delighted to be able to offer this ever-growing community a central platform for exchange, networking and innovation with DMEA in Berlin."
DMEA sparks and DMEA nova Award celebrate young talent and outstanding ideas
Young talent was the focus of DMEA sparks. Students and young professionals used the career format to make their first contacts in the industry and learn about entry opportunities in the digital health sector.The DMEA sparks Award honored outstanding final theses, while the DMEA nova Award recognized innovative start-up ideas. In an exciting pitch competition, 20 finalists presented their concepts and the most convincing idea was chosen as the winner in the final pitch. PAICON was able beat the competition today at noon.
Internationality and diversity at DMEA
The six exhibition halls offered a comprehensive picture of the digital healthcare industry - from established companies such as CompuGroup Medical, Dedalus, ID Information and Documentation in Healthcare, medatixx, Meierhofer AG, nexus AG and Telekom Healthcare Solutions to more than 100 start-ups. International participation was stronger than ever: companies from Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Scandinavia, the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, China, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, among others, presented themselves in numerous country pavilions.
After DMEA 2025 is before DMEA 2026
Even after DMEA, the DMEA online platform will continue to be available to participants for networking and information. Starting in mid-April, many sessions from the DMEA program will also be available as video on demand.The next DMEA will take place April 21-23, 2026.
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.
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).