More concretely, this is already being examined in clinical trials to check that this concept is reliable for diabetics. Continuous monitoring of various data and coordinates creates an overview of the patient’s normal daily routine, and automatically finds all of the factors that have a higher probability of occurring in conjunction with hypoglycaemic events (i.e. long periods of sitting, falls). The user would then receive a notification for this, with a prompt to eat something or a warning to see a doctor immediately, for example. This, on the one hand, provides early detection of illness and on the other provides patients with a better understanding of the concomitant events that occur with their individual illness and enables them to improve their therapy and day-to-day dealings with their disease.

As the specialist audience at the MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM has become more and more international over the last years (just as MEDICA itself), most program events at the forum, along with their presentations, speeches and discussions, are held in English. One exception is the main focus event “Telemedicine”, on November 15 (11:00 am – 5:00 pm). Under the management of the Center for Telematics and Telemedicine (ZTG) and the German Society for Telemedicine (DG Telemed), it focuses on the European Union’s strategy for digital medicine and the digital agenda of the current Estonian presidency of the Council of the European Union. Estonia is also particularly keen on innovation, in terms of its digital infrastructure and the organization of its healthcare system.


Further information about the MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM in Hall 15 (Stand E 56) is online at: http://www.medica-tradefair.com/mhif2.

Author: Dr. Lutz Retzlaff, freelance medical journalist (Neuss, Germany)

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