About mt Medizintechnik

mt Medizintechnik

mt Medizintechnik is the German trade journal for medical technology, published in Cologne by TÜV Media GmbH as the organ of the biomedical technology community. With the ISSN 0344-9416 and six issues a year, it serves the engineers, technicians, and managers who develop, operate, and maintain medical devices: the biomedical technicians, the hospital technology departments, the medical-device manufacturers, and the experts who test and certify the equipment. As the official organ of the Fachverband Biomedizinische Technik (fbmt), the Bundesverband der Sachverständigen für Medizinprodukte (BSM), and the VDI-Gesellschaft Technologies of Life Sciences, the journal carries the institutional voice of German medical technology — from the KRITIS requirements for networked medical devices to the resource management for COVID-19 patients. In the German medtech press, mt Medizintechnik is the TÜV journal: the trade publication where the technology, the regulation, and the professional community meet.

Overview

The journal presents itself as the trade journal for medical technology — the publication for the professionals who keep the medical devices running. Its editorial program covers the field's full spectrum: the technical articles on the medical devices and their systems — the ventilation therapy, the imaging, the laboratory technology, the monitoring and the implants; the regulatory and standards articles — the Medical Device Regulation (MDR), the electrical safety, the quality management, and the certification; the hospital technology articles — the procurement, the maintenance, the servicing, and the management of the medical-device fleets; and the association news — the fbmt, BSM, and VDI reports that document the professional community's life.

The readership is the German-speaking medical-technology community in its technical core: the biomedical technicians in the hospitals, the medical-device engineers in the industry, the experts and testers of the certification bodies, and the managers of the hospital technology departments. The journal's authority rests on its institutional anchoring: as the organ of three professional associations, it reaches the practitioners through the associations' channels, and its technical articles are written for the working engineers rather than the academic researchers.

The six-issues-a-year rhythm provides the regular technical briefing; the fortnightly newsletter (14-täglicher Newsletter) delivers the news between the print issues; and the mt-medizintechnik.de portal extends the journal into the continuous online information.

History

The mt – medizintechnik journal developed within the TÜV Rheinland publishing program in Cologne as the trade journal for the medical-technology field — the organ of the VDI-Fachgebiet Medizintechnik and the Fachverband Biomedizinische Technik, per the long-standing bibliographic record (ISSN 0344-9416, six issues a year). The TÜV's position as the technical inspection and certification body gave the journal its institutional foundation: the publisher that tests and certifies the medical devices publishes the journal that reports on them.

The journal's institutional anchoring expanded into the tripartite organ structure: the Fachverband Biomedizinische Technik e. V. (fbmt) — the professional association of biomedical technology; the Bundesverband der Sachverständigen für Medizinprodukte e. V. (BSM) — the federal association of medical-device experts; and the VDI-Gesellschaft Technologies of Life Sciences — the VDI society for life-science technologies. This structure makes the journal the shared medium of the field's professional organizations: the engineers, the experts, and the life-science technologists in one publication.

The journal's recent history reflects the medtech field's transformations: the COVID-19 pandemic's medical-technology challenges — the 2021 and 2022 issues' focus themes on "MedTech und Corona," the resource management for COVID-19 patients, the ventilation therapy functions — and the cybersecurity turn — the KRITIS requirements for networked medical devices, the connected devices' security. The 2026 media data (mt-media_2026.pdf) documents the journal's current commercial program: print advertising, fortnightly newsletter text ads, and online advertising on mt-medizintechnik.de.

Coverage and Content

The journal's coverage follows the medical-technology professional's world. Technical articles on the medical devices form the core: the device technologies — the ventilation and anesthesia, the imaging and radiology, the laboratory and diagnostics, the monitoring and intensive care, the surgical and the therapeutic devices — reported with the engineering detail the practitioners need; the focus themes (Schwerpunktthemen) that give each issue its depth — the pandemic's medtech lessons, the networked devices' security, the maintenance and servicing.

Regulatory and standards articles provide the legal-technical knowledge: the Medical Device Regulation's implementation, the electrical safety (EN 60601), the quality management, the risk management, and the certification procedures — the journal as the practitioners' regulatory guide. Hospital technology articles cover the operational side: the procurement and tendering, the maintenance strategies, the spare-parts and inventory management, and the medical-device fleet management in the hospitals.

The association news documents the professional community: the fbmt's activities, the BSM's expert work, the VDI society's programs, the congresses and seminars, and the personnel announcements — the journal as the community's bulletin. The advertising sections (print, newsletter, online) connect the readers with the industry: the device manufacturers, the service providers, and the congress and seminar organizers. The journal's product and company news — the new devices, the software updates, the service offerings — keeps the practitioners informed about the market's developments between the technical articles.

The fortnightly newsletter extends the print journal's rhythm into the digital news cycle: the short news items, the product announcements, and the text advertisements reach the readers' inboxes every two weeks, maintaining the journal's presence in the practitioners' working routine.

Organization and Ownership

mt Medizintechnik is published by TÜV Media GmbH — the Cologne publishing house of the TÜV Rheinland group, based at Am Grauen Stein, 51105 Cologne. The publisher's managing directors (per the 2026 media data): Dipl. oec. Gabriele Landes and Gesa Hinkelmann. The print editorial team — Iris Bings, Frank Schmitz, Daniela Penn (redaktion@mtmedizintechnik.de); the online editorial team — Mirjam Bauer (bauer@mtmedizintechnik.de). The advertising administration is handled by Speitkamp Werbe- und Verlagsgesellschaft in Herzogenrath (Gudrun Karafiol-Schober, Cindy Bouchagiar).

The journal's institutional structure — the organ for fbmt, BSM, and VDI-Gesellschaft Technologies of Life Sciences — gives it the associations' distribution: the members receive the journal through the professional organizations. The commercial model is that of an association-anchored trade journal: subscriptions and association distribution, advertising from the medical-device industry (print, fortnightly newsletter, online), and the congress/seminar and recruitment advertising.

Industry Context

The German medical-technology industry that the journal serves is one of the country's high-tech pillars. According to SPECTARIS, the industry association, Germany counted 1,508 medtech manufacturers with more than 20 employees in 2024, employing around 166,000 people and generating turnover of 41.4 billion euros, with 68 percent coming from exports. Including micro-enterprises, the sector reaches 55 billion euros in turnover. Some 93 percent of the companies are small and medium-sized enterprises, and around 9 percent of turnover is reinvested in research and development. The European Medical Device Regulation (MDR), hospital investment backlogs, and bureaucratic burdens are the industry's current pressure points, as the association's 2026 branch day in Berlin underlined — the regulatory and market environment in which the journal's readers develop, certify, and maintain their devices.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is mt-medizintechnik.de, where the print journal's program extends into the continuous online information: the technical articles, the association news, the congress calendar, and the advertising formats. The fortnightly newsletter (14-täglicher Newsletter) delivers the news and the text advertisements between the print issues — the regular digital briefing of the medtech community.

The portal's author guidelines (Autorenhinweise) — published under "Kontakt" — invite the practitioners' contributions: the journal as the community's writing platform. The TÜV Media's digital infrastructure — the publishing house's portals and the TÜV Rheinland's networks — forms the ecosystem in which the journal's content circulates. In print and online, mt Medizintechnik remains the Cologne medtech journal: the TÜV trade publication for the engineers who keep the medical devices running, six times a year plus the fortnightly newsletter — and the institutional voice of the fbmt, the BSM, and the VDI life-science technologists.