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he pandemic has pushed the healthcare sector firmly into the spotlight, and in doing so has revealed weaknesses within care systems. Hospitals, outpatient service providers and care institutions have a greater need for medical and laboratory technology, medical products and personal protective equipment, new digital healthcare solutions and point- of-care telemedical applications. With this in mind, innovative healthcare solutions are more important than ever, and this year’s Medica and Compamed conferences aim to encourage discussion and transfer of knowledge among medical technology experts. Both events will be perfectly tailored to the needs of the main target groups in the healthcare industry. The key themes of Medica are oriented towards the needs of outpatient and inpatient care, including lab technology and diagnostics; electrotherapy and medical technology; disposables and consumables; information and communication technology (digital health); and physiotherapy and orthopaedic technology.
Medica and Compamed
The medical technology industry and its suppliers are looking forward to heading to two of the world’s leading conferences in the field: Medica and Compamed. This year’s shows will be jointly held at the Düsseldorf Trade Fair Centre from 15–18 November. The return to in-person attendance comes after last year’s pandemic restrictions forced the organisers to hold the 2020 shows virtually.
This year’s Medica Health IT Forum will include discussions about virtual care, AI and robotics, digitalised healthcare and influencing user behaviour.
Medica Health IT Forum The Medica Health IT Forum started life under the name Medica Informatica in the early 1990s, as a special show for software for doctors’ practices, and has now become an international meeting point for trendsetters that gives an overarching insight into the future of
“Innovative healthcare solutions are more important than ever, and this year’s Medica and Compamed conferences aim to encourage discussion and transfer of knowledge among medical technology experts.”
Compamed, meanwhile, will showcase the full range of products and services the supplier market provides for medical technology: from individual components and parts to high-tech solutions, innovative materials and packaging, to complete contract manufacturing.
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digitalised medicine. This year’s programme for the English-speaking forum will focus on topics such as virtual care and digital therapeutics; medical artificial intelligence and robotics; fields of innovation; and societal aspects of digitalised healthcare.
A significant trend in healthcare IT is influencing user behaviour, and this topic will be up for discussion first on Monday 15 November, when two start-up founders join a panel that also includes Siemens Healthineers’ head of digital transformation Monika Rimmele. The first panellist, Dr Jan Simon Raue, is founder and managing director of MIKA, the first digital healthcare app for cancer patients, which has recently been adopted into the directory of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices. Promoting good mental health is one of the app’s objectives, with users’ powers of resilience trained in themed journeys, as well as support given on how to cope with feelings such as fear and loss of control. The other panellist, Dr Nora Mehl, is co-founder and MD of aidhere, which developed the first app that doctors can prescribe to treat patients who are very overweight, with a BMI of 30–40. The app, zanadio, is based on effective
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