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Medica Labmed Forum - International Gathering of Experts in Laboratory Medicine

Event Begin

11/16/2026

Event End

11/19/2026

Clinical laboratory medicine plays a key interdisciplinary role in modern medical care: It enables rapid and precise diagnosis for individual patients and serves as a bridge between research, technological development, and clinical practice. Laboratory medicine continuously integrates the latest trends in the life sciences and is rapidly evolving from a purely analytical field into a data-driven and AI-driven discipline.

The MEDICA LABMED FORUM is dedicated to these exciting developments and covers a wide range of topics: from automation, the use of robotics and drones, digitalization and data networks, and new liquid biopsy technologies, to integrated data interpretation using biostatistical models and artificial intelligence. Throughout, the forum keeps a close eye on current challenges facing laboratories—such as ensuring the highest quality, compliance with IVDR regulations, fostering innovative career paths, addressing the shortage of skilled workers, and creating resilient structures at all levels—as well as the ultimate goal: integrated precision diagnostics for excellent patient care.

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MEDICA Trade Show – All Trends in the Medical Technology Industry

In a nutshell The Association of the Diagnostics Industry (VDGH)

As a trade association, the German Diagnostics Industry Association (VDGH) represents the interests of more than 100 companies operating in Germany with a total turnover of 6.8 billion euros in 2022. They manufacture examination systems and reagents for the diagnosis of human diseases, which generate a turnover of more than 3.5 billion euros, as well as instruments, reagents, test systems and consumables for research in the life sciences, which generate a turnover of 3.3 billion euros.

www.vdgh.de

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