DMEA nova Award – New Ideas in Digital Health

The future of healthcare requires innovative ideas that understand sustainability not just as an ecological principle, but as a holistic approach. Start-ups are invited to break new ground with creative solutions that combine sustainable care alternatives with digital transformation. The aim is to use resources efficiently, minimize environmental impact and at the same time raise the supply of people to a new level.

Particular attention is paid to relieving the burden on all those involved in healthcare. The focus is on care professionals, care recipients and caregiving relatives, as their needs are crucial for a stable and sustainable system. Digital solutions can break down barriers and simplify processes by offering innovative tools for support and organization.

Sustainability also means making care and support more humane. Startups that share this vision can use modern technologies to create sustainable healthcare that is viable in the long term.

The integration of digital solutions not only promotes efficiency, but also helps to make healthcare systems more resilient to future challenges, such as demographic change. This includes improved use of resources and sustainable healthcare that is viable in the long term.

The focus of care is on people - the patient - and their individual needs. Digital technologies offer new opportunities to create individual patient pathways. Instead of standardized treatment approaches, digital applications can enable personalized treatment plans tailored to the patient that combine both flexibility and effectiveness.

This is particularly true in the field of mental health, where digital therapies can not only be made more accessible, but also more individualized.

The development of gender-specific and patient-centered digital health solutions helps to overcome health inequalities and promote equality of care. There is enormous potential in the field of FemTech to develop gender-specific digital solutions that meet the unique needs of women. These innovations range from diagnostic tools to customized therapeutic approaches focused on women's health.

Startups stand the chance to rethink and reshape this aspect of healthcare with innovative ideas. By taking on these challenges, they can thus set new standards in patient-centered healthcare: Because the future of medicine lies not only in technology, but in its intelligent and empathetic use for patients.

The future of healthcare is about the seamless combination of technology and humanity. Start-ups are invited to reshape the healthcare world from scratch with their innovations. The focus is on digital technologies that combine precision and efficiency with personalized care.

Artificial intelligence and robotics open up new horizons in diagnostics and therapy and create solutions that are faster, more accurate and more individual than ever before.

Wearables and personalized health monitoring bring healthcare to where it is needed: directly to people. They enable preventive care and promote self-management by providing important health data in real time.

Decision support tools help healthcare professionals to make decisions, while interoperability systems ensure that data can be exchanged securely and without barriers between different stakeholders.

These technologies make medical devices smarter, safer and more sustainable - always with the aim of ensuring patient-centered and resource-efficient care. This can result in healthcare that is not only at the cutting edge of technology, but also puts people at its center. For a future in which precision and humanity do go hand in hand.

The healthcare of the future requires innovative approaches that are flexible, patient-oriented and sustainably responsive to the needs of a modern society. Startups are invited to present innovative ideas and solutions that combine outpatient treatment concepts with hybrid forms of care.

Outpatient care makes it possible to carry out treatments closer to people's living environments and thus conserve resources without compromising on quality.

Hybrid care models combine the best of both worlds: digital applications complement personal care and create a symbiosis of online and offline worlds. This integration opens up new possibilities for designing patient-specific pathways and ensuring end-to-end care that works seamlessly between different providers and technologies.

Data forms the basis for more precise healthcare and forward-looking research. Data-driven business models can be used to develop individual treatment approaches, optimize care processes and gain valuable insights - always in compliance with the highest data protection standards.

With integrative approaches that bring together all players in the healthcare system and combine digital and personal elements, startups can help usher in a new era of healthcare - one that puts people at its center while at the same time exploiting the possibilities of modern technology.