MEDICA 2017 - world Forum for Medicine

MEDICA 2017 is the world's leading trade fair for the medical industry.

For more than 40 years it has been firmly established on every expert’s calendar. There are many reasons why MEDICA is so unique. Firstly, the event is the largest medical trade fair in the world – in 2016 it attracted more than 5,100 exhibitors from 70 countries in 17 halls.

Furthermore, each year, leading individuals from the fields of business, research, and politics grace this top-class event with their presence — naturally alongside tens of thousands of national and international experts and decision-makers from the sector.

96% of exhibitors expressed extreme satisfaction with the business they achieved and the contacts they made.

The MEDICA 2017 Topics 

• Electromedicine, medical technology
• Information and communications technology
• Physiotherapy, orthopaedic equipment
• Disposables, commodities and consumer goods
• Laboratory equipment, diagnostics

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MEDICA Forums and Conferences

Five forums and several special shows on varied medical-technological topics are concisely presented in the halls as an attractive complement to the trade fair. E.g. MEDICA ECON FORUM, MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM, MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM with MEDICA App COMPETITION, MEDICA TECH FORUM? MEDICA WOUND CARE FORUM. 

The MEDICA conferences are the German Hospital Conference (the leading communication platform for decision-makers in German hospitals), the EUROPEAN HOSPITAL CONFERENCE (EHC) taking place every second year, the MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE, the MEDICA PHYSIO CONFERENCE and the International Conference on Disaster and Military Medicine (DiMiMED).

MEDICA visitor target groups:

• General practitioners
• Hospital doctors
• Hospital managers
• Hospital nursing staff
• Hospital technical managers
• Laboratory managers
• Medical specialized trade
• Medical industry
• Medical assistants (hospital, doctor‘s surgery, laboratory)
• Cost units

Parallel to MEDICA:
COMPAMED — High tech solutions for medical technology. 

COMPAMED is the leading international market place for the medical supplier sector and product development.

MEDICA and COMPAMED Photo: Messe Düsseldorf/ctillmann