About us

The Medikamio information platform provides you with information about medicines, diseases and active ingredients.

Would you like information about certain medicines, diseases or active ingredients? Have you misplaced the package insert for your medication and want to find out how to use it correctly? Would you like to read interesting articles on the subject of health and be informed about the findings of current studies? Then you are guaranteed to find what you are looking for at Medikamio.

Portrait of medikamio Managing Director Marco Vitula

Our vision

"Our vision is to support patients and doctors with reliable, up-to-date and user-friendly technologies to quickly view relevant drug information and thus make taking medication easier and safer in the long term."

DI Marco Vitula, Founder & Managing Director

Our mission

Our company works to improve the health and well-being of patients by developing intelligent products and innovative applications to support the safe taking and prescribing of medication. We strive to gain and maintain the trust and satisfaction of our customers through our innovative and reliable products.

Our offer

The platform contains comprehensive drug information, including package leaflets for national and European-approved medicines. These are already available free of charge in 9 countries.

Our editorial team

Mag. pharm. Stefanie Brandauer

Pharmacist

Stefanie Lehenauer has been a freelance writer for Medikamio since 2020 and studied pharmacy at the University of Vienna. She works as a pharmacist in Vienna and her passion is herbal medicines and their effects.

Lisa Türk, BSc

Lisa Türk is a freelance journalist and editor specializing in science, medicine, health and psychology. She is passionate about writing texts that focus on informative added value for the respective target group. What is never missing: the most accurate research, precise language and empathy.

Editorial principles

Our process

Our editorial team consists of medical doctors, pharmacists and pharmacy and science students. Our articles are therefore written exclusively by experienced authors and then checked by our editorial team before they are published. In addition, we carry out regular internal reviews and quality checks to ensure that our content remains up to date.

Our goal

Our aim is to provide our readers with evidence-based and reliable drug and health information by means of scientifically researched articles and findings from studies and to answer any questions competently and neutrally.

Our sources

All information used for the content comes from verified sources (recognized institutions, experts, studies from renowned universities). We attach great importance to the qualification of the authors and the scientific background of the information. In this way, we ensure that our research is based on scientific findings.

The management

DI Marco Vitula

Founder & CEO

Marco Vitula is a health tech entrepreneur and founder of Medikamio. He studied business informatics in Vienna and Graz. In 2008, he founded the physician platform Arztsuche24, in 2011 the health-tech company Diagnosia and in 2012 the mail-order pharmacy Vamida, which he sold to the pharmaceutical wholesaler Pharmosan in 2021. In his spare time, he is a passionate sailor.

Ing. Johann Brandauer, MSc

Co-Founder

Johann Brandauer is co-founder and technical partner of Medikamio. He studied software engineering in Vienna. Through his extensive experience as co-founder of startups and consultant in digital business for various companies as well as public institutions, he significantly promotes the development of innovative health tech solutions.

Thomas Brandauer, MSc

Co-Founder

Thomas is co-founder as well as technical partner at medikamio. After successfully completing a bachelor's degree in business informatics, he expanded his knowledge by completing a master's degree in IT security. His academic background and expertise enable medikamio to develop innovative solutions for the challenges of the health tech sector.

The Advisory Board

Dr. Maximilian Schnödl, MBA

Advisory Board Member

Maximilian Schnödl is an Austrian entrepreneur and investor. He advises the Medikamio management based on his international experience in the health tech segment, e.g. with CareYaya (USA), medudoc (DACH) or PocketRN (USA). He studied law at the University of Vienna and holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Our history

The platform was founded in 2016 and emerged from the Diagnosia.com platform as part of a management buyout

2011

Diagnosia was founded in 2011 by Stefan Weixelbaumer, Eric Pfarl, Lukas Zinnagl, Fritz Höllerer and Marco Vitula. The platform was the basis for medikamio.com.

2015

Diagnosia.com has more than 2.5 million visitors per month (Google Analytics).

2016

The separation of the B2MD and B2C business gave rise to the Medikamio brand, and the diagnosia.com platform was migrated to medikamio.com.

2017

Migration and management buy-out Medikamio.com by Dipl.-Ing. Marco Vitula .

2020

Johann Brandauer and Thomas Brandauer from bitcraft join as technical partners. Hon code certification.

2023

afgis certification