MEDICA 2021– Top in all medical areas

The world of medicine meets at MEDICA 2021. A must for anyone who wants to experience tomorrow’s healthcare market live.

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Apply online now as an exhibitor of MEDICA 2021 in Düsseldorf / Germany

Be part of the No. 1: Register conveniently and easily online in just a few steps. For exhibitors 2020, the registration forms are already personalized.

NEW: Registration deadline / beginning of hall layout planning was 01 May 2021.

Conditions of participation and online application forms 2021

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Final Press Report 2020

virtual.MEDICA + virtual.COMPAMED win audiences over with their high degree of international resonance

They provided important stimuli for the healthcare economy and there is keen anticipation for the reunion in Düsseldorf in 2021

For the first time in the history of MEDICA, the world-leading medical trade fair, and the industry’s number one platform for the suppliers of the medical technology industry, COMPAMED, held from 16 to 19 November 2020, took place entirely online due to the pandemic - but still won over their audiences due to their high degree of international resonance in this format too, as virtual.MEDICA and virtual.COMPAMED. Despite a very short registration period, a total of over 1,500 exhibitors took part, hailing from 63 nations. They displayed a huge variety of innovative products, amounting to over 18,300 items, in their online showrooms, and presented live programmes for the healthcare community in over 100 web sessions, which hosted 300 participants at their peak. The community showed avid interest in their droves: Over 45,000 professional visitors (unique users) from 169 nations used the virtual offers and generated 405,000 page impressions. International online visitors to the event made up 78% of the attendees.

From the editors of MEDICA-tradefair.com

Topic of the Month

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Digital health applications

Digital health apps (DiGA) are increasingly becoming part of patients' everyday lives. In this Topic of the Month, we take a look at the place the "apps on prescription" already occupy in healthcare today and how they will continue to develop in the future.

Read in our Topic of the Month how DiGAs are developed and what they can do for patients

Interview

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Hospital logistics: three action steps to future success

Behind every hospital are sophisticated and complex logistics that must run like clockwork to keep things going. But how good are the processes when it comes to managing patient care and hospital staff? There are many weak links that can be avoided.

Prof. Henner Gimpel explains in our interview, how hospital logistics can be set up for future success

Video

Digital twin heart – Computer model for an optimized therapy success

Heart surgery is difficult even for experienced surgeons and therapeutical success is not always certain. Physicians need to rely on their experience when choosing and planning the correct intervention. A computer model could help them in the future: The digital twin heart could be fed with patient data and then simulate whether an intervention will be successful.

Discover more video reports in our MediaCenter

Review of virtual.MEDICA 2020

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Digital healthcare

What will medical care look like in the future? Lina Behrens, Managing Director of Flying Health, has many years of expertise in digital healthcare and works with her team every day to shape the future of medicine.

In an interview, Lina Behrens gives an outlook on the future of healthcare.

News from the editors of MEDICA-tradefair.com

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Male infertility scoring using AI-assisted image classification

Clinicians at Toho University in Japan developed an AI-based scoring model for testis images to assess patients with severe male infertility. Creation of the image classifier on a cloud-based machine learning framework needed no help from data scientists.

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Just right: how frequent telehealth appointments should be

More than ever, patients are using telehealth to ask doctors and nurses about worrying blood-pressure readings, nauseating migraines and stubborn foot ulcers. But for patients with chronic conditions, how frequent should telehealth appointments be? Can that frequency change? Under what conditions?

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'UK-first' digital platform for colorectal patients

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have announced what it says is a UK-first digital platform to improve outcomes for colorectal patients.

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Researchers advance 3D printing to aid tissue replacement

Professor Arda Gozen looks to a future someday in which doctors can hit a button to print out a scaffold on their 3-D printers and create custom-made replacement skin, cartilage, or other tissue for their patients.

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Personalized sweat sensor for monitoring blood glucose

Many people with diabetes endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to measure their blood glucose. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have developed a device that can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip, and then a personalized algorithm provides an accurate estimate of blood glucose levels.

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Cooperative Support for Diagnosis and Therapy in Ophthalmology

Today’s imaging technologies in ophthalmology are so advanced that retinal and vascular structures in the eye can be resolved with unprecedented precision in 2, 3 and even 4 dimensions. However, interpreting the image material for a therapy decision is a complex task that requires a lot of experience. Treatment errors may have severe consequences for patients.

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3-D 'bioprinting' to create nose cartilage

A team of University of Alberta researchers has discovered a way to use 3-D bioprinting technology to create custom-shaped cartilage for use in surgical procedures. The work aims to make it easier for surgeons to safely restore the features of skin cancer patients living with nasal cartilage defects after surgery.

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A sweet solution to hard brain implants

Brain implants are used to treat neurological dysfunction, and their use for enhancing cognitive abilities is a promising field of research. Implants can be used to monitor brain activity or stimulate parts of the brain using electrical pulses. In epilepsy, for example, brain implants can determine where in the brain seizures are happening.

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Seconds save lives – clean your hands! - World Hand Hygiene Day 2021

In the spring of 2020, the onset of the Corona pandemic brought the importance of clean hands to the public's attention. Washing hands with soap for 30 seconds was one of the first precautions advised against the virus. But even without Corona, clean hands save lives, especially in healthcare settings.

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World Asthma Day 2021

The chest constricts, breathing becomes difficult: a familiar feeling for asthmatics. As early as 1998, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) launched World Asthma Day to inform people about this chronic lung disease.

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Disinfection robot: Value created by linking up to building data

The disinfection robot BALTO is capable of disinfecting doorknobs and similar objects. It does this autonomously, reacting to human beings in the surrounding area at the same time. An interface with the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process makes this possible.

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Pain assessment tool for social care setting

Social care professionals working in residential care and nursing homes can now use an AI-powered pain assessment tool to assess and score pain in residents whether they are able or unable to self-report their pain.

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System to deliver glue for sealing defects in broken blood vessels

A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that offers a quicker and less invasive way to seal tears and holes in blood vessels, using an electrically-activated glue patch applied via a minimally invasive balloon catheter.

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Technology for future nanoscale disease diagnostics

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed an ultrasonic imaging system, which can be deployed on the tip of a hair-thin optical fibre and will be insertable into the human body to visualise cell abnormalities in 3D.

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'Breakthrough' cases suggest COVID testing may be here to stay

In rare cases, people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID and are immune to the virus can nevertheless develop the disease. New findings from The Rockefeller University now suggest that these so-called breakthrough cases may be driven by rapid evolution of the virus, and that ongoing testing of immunized individuals will be important to help mitigate future outbreaks.

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Microscopic polymeric network to attack glioblastoma multiforme

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in collaboration with Stanford Medicine and the San Raffaele Hospital have demonstrated with preclinical studies the effectiveness of a new biomedical implant for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme.

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COVID-19: investigating the risk of infection from ventilated patients

Together with intensive care physicians at the Kloster Grafschaft-Fachkrankenhaus, scientists at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are investigating how virus-infected air spreads among ventilated patients. The goal is to prevent the spread of infection in hospitals and care homes.

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21st century medical needles for high-tech cancer diagnostics

Modern medicine needs better quality samples than traditional biopsy needles can provide. Ultrasonically oscillating needles can improve treatment and reduce discomfort.

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Better hearing with optical cochlear implants

A team led by Tobias Moser from the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab at the University Medical Center Göttingen and from the Auditory Neuroscience and Optogenetics Laboratory at the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ) is working to improve cochlear implants.

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Fighting harmful bacteria with nanoparticles

In the arms race "mankind against bacteria", bacteria are currently ahead of us. Our former miracle weapons, antibiotics, are failing more and more frequently when germs use tricky maneuvers to protect themselves from the effects of these drugs.

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Study explains 'cocktail party effect' in hearing impairment

Plenty of people struggle to make sense of a multitude of converging voices in a crowded room. Commonly known as the "cocktail party effect," people with hearing loss find it is especially difficult to understand speech in a noisy environment.

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Emergency EMR created in a week to respond to COVID-19 crisis

A team from Regenstrief Institute leveraged OpenMRS, a global open-source electronic medical record (EMR), to create an emergency EMR for Indianapolis first responders preparing for a possible influx of COVID-19 patients.

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Safe and precise surgical catheter guiding by robots

Traditionally, the success of a minimally-invasive surgical (MIS) procedure is dependent on the clinician’s capabilities. Prominent MIS procedures include vascular surgeries, during which catheters are inserted into the body, steered to a target location, and used to treat a vascular disease. A particular challenge in vascular surgeries is the accurate positioning of the catheter tip.

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Cardiology: AI makes no-cath forecast

Researchers at MUSC use AI software to predict coronary artery plaque composition and significance without the risks of invasive procedures.

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3D printing: Go-ahead for Swiss m4m Center

The Technology Transfer Center for 3D Printing in Medical Technology – Swiss m4m Center, in short – meets the requirements of ISO standard 13485:2016; it is thus allowed to produce implants and instruments for human patients. The starting signal for promising projects with Swiss SMEs: The partner network already comprises 45 companies and research institutions.

Rotation Mattress with Pump Turning Mattress

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Brandon Medical launches interactive virtual tour and live demonstration platforms

Brandon Medical launches interactive virtual tour and live demonstration platforms of equipment package for operating rooms and critical care areas in order to support hospitals to return to elective...

Stroke patients finger recovery training hand rehabilitation robot glove

FOFO MEDICAL Foshan Hongfeng co., ltd Single finger training is the characteristic function of #1002 finger rehabilitation training instrument. Studies have shown that single-finger training can...

The ERGO CABINET. The perfect match between design and functionality

We have launch the ERGO CABINET, a First Aid Cabinet made of injected plastic, with wall hanging, in fine and gloss finish. Wall-hanged portable First Aid Kit. Due to Its practical design it can...

How to organize remote daily monitoring for COVID-19 patients at home with Show2Doc

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies that track and transmit a patient’s vital signs can provide real-time insights for healthcare providers to determine next steps. Show2Doc is a...

Show2Doc for chronically ill patients

The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, and obesity and rising adoption of digital health technology are some of the key factors promoting the growth...

AMD RT-qPCR Respiratory Panels

New for MEDICA 2020 AMD is excited to introducing our four new Respiratory Panels. Viruses that affect the human respiratory system manifest themselves in a number of ways, with most people...

CAMPTON Diagnostics presents fully automated point-of-care platform for fast test results

CAMPTON Reader 100 enables the detection of biomarkers e.g. for infections, cancer, autoimmune or other diseases from a whole blood sample within a few minutes Serological and molecular biological...

OmniVision Launches World’s First Complete Medical Imaging Subsystems for Single-Use Endoscopes and Catheters with Addition of OVMed® Cables

Combined with Portfolio of Medical CameraCubeChip™ Modules and OVMed ISP Boards, New Line of Cables Enables OmniVision to Uniquely Provide Optimally Tuned End-to-End Imaging Subsystems OmniVision...

New Reagent for Direct Determination of HDL-cholesterol

DiaSys is pleased to offer HDL-c direct FS, a new homogenous assay for direct determination of HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C). HDL-C monitoring is of great importance for cardiovascular risk assessment since...

Former USAF Surgeon General, Innovators Focus on Life-Saving Air Transport of COVID Patients

San Antonio-based Knight Aerospace just launched manufacture of state-of-the-art “flying emergency rooms” that safely transport and treat critically ill and highly contagious patients while in flight.

OmniVision and Almalence Add SuperResolution to World’s Smallest Camera Module for Endoscopic Medical Imaging

Joint Solution Combines OmniVision’s Wafer-Level CameraCubeChip™ Technology With Almalence’s Unique SuperResolution Algorithm to Provide Highest Quality Images of Smallest Parts of Anatomy...

What is enterosorption?

The term “enterosorption” was first defined as the net gain of substances into the alimentary canal and in the context of a method of sorption therapy using orally administered sorbent materials or “...

Plasma Viscosity - Accuracy, Precision and Suitability – who wants it?

Since 1947, when John Harkness published his seminal work on clinical plasma viscosity analysis in the British Medical Journal, the test has been generally misunderstood and certainly underutilised.

Edmund Optics Acquires Quality Thin Films, Inc.; Strengthens Position as Laser Optics Manufacturer

Edmund Optics®, the premier provider of optical and imaging components, announced today that it has acquired Quality Thin Films, Inc. (QTF). QTF, located outside of Tampa, Florida, offers a wide range...

Aspen Laser Systems Named to the Inc. 5000 List of The Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Inc. Magazine revealed this week that Aspen Laser Systems has been selected for its Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

Plasma Viscosity in Covid-19

Covid-19, or SARS-COV-2, which emerged in late 2019, continues to spread around the world, infecting more than 4.5m people at time of writing, and leading to more than 300,000 deaths. The...

Blood Viscosity: The Test that can Save The World?

2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably originating in a bat colony in central China, mutated to allow it to also infect humans. Within three months of the virus being...

Why blood viscosity testing could be an important key for Covid-19 treatment

Blood thickness is emerging as an important indicator of dangerous complications in Covid-19 patients, causing demand for the blood viscometers manufactured by Benson Viscometers in West Wales to...

World premiere: MAVIG presents the new Medium-Load Monitor Suspension System GD50 for the first time

With the increasing number of clinical applications and evolving spaces, MAVIG has expanded its previous generation of medium-load monitor mount systems into a versatile product that meets the...

MAVIG YLED-1F – LED Lamp with Acrobat® Swing Systems

Optimal examination and operation conditions can only be achieved if a precise illumination of the wound area is guaranteed. The correct positioning of the lamp body is therefore essential. Whether in...

TECNODRAPE - Surgical Incision Antimicrobical Drape

The surgical incision drape TECNODRAPE is made of IODOPOVIDONE and it has a grip tape made of slow-release iodine complex. TECNODRAPE is an effective and essential protection against the contamination...

Why a simple blood test could identify those most at risk of Covid-19 complications

One of the biggest challenges facing medical teams treating Covid-19 patients is identifying which ones are likely to suffer the most extreme responses to the virus. Knowing this would make it...

JM PGM Wire

By developing industry leading sustainable technologies, Johnson Matthey provides platinum group metals (PGM) in various forms such as wire, tube or sheet as well as high-quality precision machined...

New for MEDICA 2020

Test for the detection of coronavirus SARS-CoV-1/2 (COVID-19) A new severe respiratory syndrome caused by a coronavirus was first observed in Wuhan (China) in December 2019. The infection has...

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