MEDICA 2019 and COMPAMED 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany will take place November 18 – 21, 2019 with new updates announced in a statement by Messe Düsseldorf Director Wolfram Diener. “For almost 50 years, MEDICA acted as an indicator for the activity of the global medical market: Exhibitors, visitors and media representatives from all over the world will come together again at the world’s largest and leading medical trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany,” Diener said.
International bookings from more than 60 countries account for three-quarters of the 5,000-plus exhibitors taking part with visitors travelling from around 170 countries. “The outlook is also excellent for the supplier trade fair COMPAMED, which takes place alongside MEDICA,” Diener said.
After two years of construction, now completed, exhibitors and attendees can expect a more streamlined venue and some other new additions.
Here’s what’s changing:
· MEDICA segment for information and communication technology will move from Hall 15 to Hall 13, giving it a direct connection to the halls for medical technology and electromedicine (Halls 9 to 14).
“This is the logical consequence of the development of the market and industry needs,” Diener stated. “Digitalization in medicine is forging ahead at great speed and is also bringing about huge changes in both product development and business processes. Today, we are focusing less on healthcare IT as an isolated discipline and are gravitating more towards digital health, specifically as part of an overarching digital transformation. This concerns all product and sales areas, particularly the convergence of software and hardware in medical technology and electromedicine, from app-controlled wearables to units for mobile and stationary imaging to robotic systems for surgery and information systems at patients’ bedsides.”
· The communication and information platforms MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM and the MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM will be in Hall 13. “These forums attract a lot of attention and are established audience magnets with sessions and presentations on all of the relevant digital healthcare trends,” Diener said.
· The MEDICA START-UP PARK will also move to Hall 13, along with the big joint stand for the wearables technology show and the joint stand for the ENTSCHEIDERFABRIK. Best practice projects for digitalization of clinics are showcased here.
· Halls 15 to 17 are dedicated to national and international joint participations with a primary focus on medical technology and electromedicine.
· The new Hall 1, which has 134,500 square feet of space, will be ready right on time for MEDICA 2019 to house the MEDICA exhibitor space for laboratory technology and diagnostics. The MEDICA LABMED FORUM, with its speeches and discussions on trending topics in laboratory medicine will also now be located in Hall 1. (The temporary lightweight halls 3a and 18, used during the construction phase from 2017 to 2018, are no longer needed.)
“For the first time ever, we will be cooperating with the renowned international DxPx Conference, which marks an interesting new event especially for the cream of the crop in the laboratory field,” Diener added. “This event will be held at the Maritim Hotel in Düsseldorf on the first day of MEDICA (November 18). Here, entrepreneurs, industry representatives and investors with a focus on diagnostics come together. All conference participants will receive a ticket for MEDICA in order to continue their business discussions in the trade fair halls and obtain information on current exhibitor innovations on the following days.”
