MEDICA recently highlighted the latest innovation in medical technology – from wearable devices for patient monitoring, to an award-winning app to help overcome speech difficulties.
Providing a showcase for international innovation in medical technologies, MEDICA highlighted some of the latest advances in wearable technology, digital imaging, patient monitoring, medical apps, as well as a wide variety of healthcare products and equipment from leading companies across the world.
The world’s largest medical trade fair, MEDICA, and specialist supplier trade fair, COMPAMED, recently took place in Düsseldorf, Germany, providing a showcase for the latest innovation in medical technology. From 16-19 November, 130,000 specialist visitors from around 120 nations attended the event – a significant increase on the previous year (128,500). International visitors accounted for just over half of attendees, with a large number arriving from the US, Latin America and countries located in the Arabic-speaking regions.
Members of the German federal government used MEDICA as a platform for discussion and communication of current political issues – the Federal Minister of Health, Hermann Gröhe, underlined the need to improve the financial resources of German hospitals and discussed the latest health policy issues. Federal Minister of Education and Research, Professor Johanna Wanka, also presented the federal government’s funding concept for medical informatics, at the MEDICA Health IT Forum – highlighting the increasing demand for innovative IT solutions to provide improved consolidation of data.
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