In the final of the
13th MEDICA START-UP COMPETITION, Robeauté from France was the winning pitch team on the forum stage with a newly developed microrobot for use in neurosurgical procedures. This year’s Healthcare Innovation World Cup was won by the Samphire Neuroscience team from the UK with a headset that acts on the neural networks of the brain to help alleviate menstrual pain and the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
News about the year’s hot topics
Whether with program sessions at the forums and conferences or with exhibitor presentations in the five trade fair spheres: In the context of the digital transformation of the healthcare sector, MEDICA 2024 highlighted all the year’s hot topics, such as the growing importance of interconnected models of care. The focus was also on AI-supported systems, robotic solutions and concepts for dealing with the shortage of skilled workers. Among the innovations presented at the trade fair were robotic applications to assist with highly complex neurosurgical procedures and orthopedic operations (including hip replacements). Also new was an AI-based tool for the automatic documentation of medical consultations, a whole range of rapid tests for point-of-care diagnosis of a wide variety of infectious diseases (e.g., gonorrhea or the mpox virus including the problematic clade Ib mutation) and a medically certified smartwatch (Huawei) for easy blood pressure measurement on the wrist.
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The special “Automotive Health” activity area (in Hall 12), which was designed in cooperation with the Innovation Institute from Frankfurt, was also a special and popular attraction. Nowadays, a number of sensors and functions can be built into cars to enable safe and healthy driving. Fatigue detection systems, which are already commonplace, are just one example. In future, many more functionalities will be able to automatically detect risks of emergencies based on the measurement of drivers’ vital data, thus possibly avoiding serious accidents. The Innovation Institute demonstrated its development expertise in this field by exhibiting vehicles such as the VW ID.4 and also made the technology tangible in a racing simulator.
