Record-breaking numbers expected at Medica and Compamed
The international health industry comes to Düsseldorf for Medica 2016 – over 5,000 exhibitors for the very first time. 774 suppliers to present their innovations at Compamed 2016
Decision makers from all sectors of the international health industry will be meeting in Düsseldorf from 14 to 17 November. For the first time, over 5,000 exhibitors from 68 nations will be attending Medica. Compamed, which takes place on the same dates, has also broken its own attendance record, with 774 exhibitors from 37 countries, compared to the previous year’s attendance count at 773.
“80% of the Medica floor space booked by exhibitors has gone to international stakeholders. The biggest floor space bookers come from Germany, Italy, China and the USA, followed by France, the UK, Turkey and South Korea”, detailed Joachim Schäfer, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf.
Visitors have a variety of choice available to them in terms of the innovations exhibited at this event. Medica exhibitors will show the full spectrum of products and services for modern healthcare - from medical devices, laboratory technology to physiotherapy and orthopaedic technology, commodities and consumables to electrotherapy, medical technology and health IT.
“No other event in the world offers this comprehensive overview of the newest medical products and developments”, states Horst Giesen, director of Medica and Compamed.
“The digitalisation wave is really taking hold in the health industry, and in almost all medical disciplines, as well as in the processes implicated in the outpatient and hospital sectors. This digitalisation has an impact on both the doctor and the patient.”
Specifically, Mobile Health solutions provide an enormous array of innovations, which can be seen at MEDICA 2016. One such innovation are wearables, as well as smartphones used with specific health apps and the associated hardware. Whether you’re looking for transducers for ultrasound, EKG electrodes or a lancing device for blood glucose measurement, the list of accessories that instantly turn an android or iphone into a device for professional medical applications is growing longer and longer.
The Wearable Technologies Show in Hall 15 holds a selection of small ‘all rounders’. This includes a wearable patch for monitoring asthma, a waistband clip which stops period pain and a bracelet which functions as an early warning system for epileptics.
Artificial intelligence is also finding its path into the medical sector. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will present a robot that has ‘learned’ sensitivity on their Medica-stand in Hall 10. As a result of this sensitivity, the robot is adapted to the task of independently placing needles for biopsy in a highly precise manner and requires far less time to do so than a doctor would.