Europe's largest trade fair and congress for digital health, covering the full healthcare IT stack from hospital systems and practice software to AI, interoperability and electronic patient records, and relocating from Berlin to Munich for its 2027 edition.
DMEA, Connecting Digital Health, is the leading European trade fair and congress for the digitalisation of healthcare. Held annually and organised by bvitg, the German Association of Healthcare IT Vendors, it covers the complete digital value chain in healthcare: hospital information systems, practice software, telematics infrastructure, AI, interoperability and data infrastructure. The event draws around 20,500 visitors, 900 exhibitors and several hundred congress speakers. From 2027 it relocates from Berlin to Munich, hosted at Messe München under a new partnership between bvitg and the Munich exhibition company.
DMEA combines a large exhibition floor with a structured congress, which makes it both a sourcing marketplace and a policy-and-practice forum for the European eHealth sector. It is built for the people who buy, build and regulate healthcare IT: hospital and clinic chief information officers, healthcare software vendors, payers and policymakers. Its centre of gravity is the German and wider European health system, where electronic patient records, the telematics infrastructure and interoperability are live operational questions rather than abstractions, which gives the programme a practical, deployment-focused character.
The congress and exhibition span the healthcare IT stack:
The congress is organised into thematic streams covering core hospital applications, clinical process solutions, networking and telemedicine, data analytics and cloud, healthcare management, and nursing and care IT, alongside the exhibition floor and a startup programme.
DMEA carries the patronage of the German Federal Ministry of Health, and its opening sessions feature senior government and sector leadership, including the Federal Minister of Health. The full 2027 congress line-up is published closer to the event.
Both. Its base and centre of gravity are the German health system, but it is the reference digital health trade fair for the wider European sector and draws international exhibitors and visitors. The 2027 move to Munich is framed by the organiser as part of an internationalisation strategy.
DMEA is the largest dedicated digital health trade fair in Europe by exhibitor count, focused specifically on healthcare IT and the digital value chain. MEDICA is a far broader medical-device and diagnostics fair; HIMSS Europe is a roaming health-IT congress. DMEA pairs a large eHealth exhibition with a structured congress in a way neither of the others replicates in the German market.
From 2027 DMEA is held at Messe München, the Munich exhibition centre, one of the largest fairgrounds in Germany. The move follows the end of the event's long-running relationship with Messe Berlin.
DMEA is organised by bvitg, the German Association of Healthcare IT Vendors, which has run the event since its time as conhIT and through its years as DMEA in Berlin. For 2027 bvitg formed a new partnership with Messe München to host the fair in Munich, after declining a brand-rights arrangement with Messe Berlin. Messe Berlin has announced a separate competing event in Berlin on the same April 2027 dates, which makes the 2027 edition a notable moment for the European digital health calendar.
DMEA is the largest digital health trade fair in Europe and, from 2027, a Munich event after a public break with Messe Berlin; it covers the full healthcare IT stack from hospital systems to AI and interoperability, and remains the reference gathering for the German and European eHealth sector.
Visitor tickets are sold online through the official site, and exhibitor participation is by application. Specific 2027 price tiers were not yet publicly disclosed at time of verification; the official ticket page is the reference source.
At Messe München, the Munich exhibition centre, following the relocation from Berlin.
The organiser bvitg ended its relationship with Messe Berlin after a dispute over brand rights and formed a new partnership with Messe München. Messe Berlin has announced a separate event in Berlin on the same dates.
Yes. Visitor tickets are sold online and exhibitor participation is by application; 2027 prices are published on the official ticket page.
| Official website | https://dmea.de/en/ |
| Tickets | https://dmea.de/en/trade-fair/tickets/ |
| Organiser | https://www.bvitg.de/dmea/ |