Focus on digital healthcare:
our impressions of the DMEA 2025

The DMEA – Europe’s leading event for digital health – took place in Berlin from 8 to 10 April 2025. We from the Panoff Health Care team were also there and were able to experience at first hand how dynamically the market for digital healthcare solutions is developing – especially with regard to acute hospitals and long-term care facilities.

Digital innovations – tangible and practical

The DMEA 2025 impressively demonstrated that digital healthcare solutions are no longer a dream of the future. Many exhibitor stands and specialist forums focussed on important topics such as
Particularly relevant for us: Innovations that optimise clinical processes, reduce the workload of nursing staff and enable secure, seamless data integration between the players in the healthcare system.
The DMEA also had a lot to offer in terms of content: Exciting presentations discussed interoperability, cyber security and digital sovereignty – topics that will determine the success or failure of digitalisation strategies in the future.

What we take with us – and what counts now

One key learning: the trend is clearly moving towards practical orientation. More and more digital approaches are showing real feasibility in day-to-day care.
 
Our conclusion: DMEA 2025 emphasises how important it is to provide hospitals and care facilities with strategic, user-oriented and sustainable support on their digital transformation journey.

What does that mean for you?

If you work in a hospital or long-term care facility and would like to actively shape the digital transformation, please contact us. Together we will develop strategies that work – for better care, noticeable relief and more security for the future.
Get in touch now and initiate digitisation projects!

Dr. Kristina Marckhoff

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Dr. Kristina Marckhoff

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Dr. sc. ETH Zürich, Information Management, ETH Zurich

Master of Arts (HSG), Strategy and International Management, University of St. Gallen

Experience

15 years in consulting and project management, focused on health care, industrial goods, and telecommunications

8 years in operational leadership positions

5 years in research

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Strategy development

Business model development

Process management optimization

Digitalization

Project and program management

Expertise

Strategy development

Business model development

Process management optimization

Digitalization

Project and program management

Focus Topics

Identification and implementation of structural and process optimizations in health care, particularly long-term care facilities and acute hospitals.

Focus Topics

Identification and implementation of structural and process optimizations in health care, particularly long-term care facilities and acute hospitals.

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“With a cool head, a warm heart and working hands”
Prof. Dr. Martin Hilb

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