Telemedicine and telemonitoring: exciting solutions from MEDICA 2025 – Part 1

"Telemedicine and integrated care" was one of the hot topics at MEDICA 2025. With this, MEDICA is addressing one of the most pressing problems in the healthcare sector: the shortage of specialists. In Part 1 of our article, we present five telemedicine and telemonitoring solutions that caught our attention at the trade fair.

Telemedicine and telemonitoring make it easier for patients to receive medical care and improve their health. This is particularly important where the nearest treatment option, be it a doctor's surgery or hospital, is so far away that the journey is time-consuming and cumbersome. In this case, patients can also receive medical care at home, provided they have an internet connection. They use a smartphone, tablet or computer as well as measuring devices or health wearables to regularly record data about their health themselves and transmit it to doctors or other healthcare providers. The doctor then provides care advice and limited treatment during a telephone call or video consultation.

At MEDICA 2025, solutions for telemedicine and telemonitoring not only played a role for the exhibiting companies. The topic was also present in the supporting program of forums and conferences. Visitors to MEDICA were able to learn, among others, about the following products and solutions to improve remote medical care and health.

ACTIMI's telemonitoring platform addresses the chronic diseases, heart failure and renal insufficiency. It also supports the monitoring of patients in emergency medicine and nursing homes. It can be used with a patient app, health wearables and other devices. Medical device manufacturers have the option to integrate their devices into the platform via the interface.

The avatar practice was presented by Tanja Gerlach at the MEDICA ECON FORUM. The practice is operated in a hybrid model: Patients can pair their smartwatch with the practice app and regularly transmit data about their health to the doctors involved. In addition to the patient app, the practice offers communication via chat and video consultations. In the avatar practice, face-to-face care is of course also possible in addition to telemedical care.

Polypharmacy often affects senior citizens. Specifically, people who take five or more medications permanently and at the same time have an increased risk of harmful drug interactions. The risk of forgetting individual doses of medication also increases. The AI-based Baedia app from Bayartis, together with the medicine cabinet, helps a patient to organize, store and take medication correctly at home.

The sensor sole from Eversion measures misalignments of the musculoskeletal system over a period of 14 days. It accompanies a patient in everyday life. This is why the telemedical measurement with the sole is more comprehensive and closer to the practice than that in the gait laboratory or orthopedic workshop. The corrective insoles from Eversion can be used to directly correct misalignments based on the measurements.

Diabetics can measure their blood glucose quickly and easily with the AI-based GLUCUBE and the associated app. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is used here. Diabetes management is supported by the GLUCUBE panel, which enables communication between doctor and patient as well as monitoring the data.