Digitalisation is a global megatrend, and Norway is a role model for the digital transformation of the healthcare sector.
Its focus on developing and deploying cutting-edge solutions for diagnosis is driving progress in prevention and treatment, both in clinical settings and at home.
The Norwegian health industry has some distinct advantages, including world-leading AI and life science research, innovative startups and scale-ups, strong collaboration and clusters, and generous government funding of research infrastructure. The result is a new wave of solutions that improve quality, safety and efficiency in healthcare.
Supported by the recent government’s roadmap for health and strategy for health export, and a public sector eager to adopt new tools, Norwegian healthtech innovators are translating decades of expertise in telecoms, logistics, and software. So, what technologies are driving this transformation in healthcare delivery?
- Bliksund – Decision support across the pre-hospital pathway
Since its founding in 2010, Bliksund has dedicated itself to replacing paper forms and siloed IT systems that once dominated emergency services. Its cloud-based platform brings together dispatch data, digital patient records, and live video feeds so paramedics and clinicians share a single source of truth in real time.
Paramedics can capture vital signs on tablets, transmit them en route to the hospital, and automatically populate the in-hospital record on arrival. This vastly reduces handover time and transcription errors, which are crucial in time-sensitive situations.
With more than 70 staff members across Grimstad and Oslo, Norway, and overseas offices, the company is now exporting its model to the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, and Vietnam, proving that this Scandinavian thinking translates well across borders.
- DNV Imatis – Seamless data platform improving day-to-day hospital tasks
What if every workflow in the hospital – from security and technical services to porters, cleaning, and catering – fed into a unified, automated taskboard? DNV Imatis is a leading solution that can sit on top of your current electronic health records and IT infrastructure to make that possible.
DNV Imatis’s digital platform streamlines workflows and ensures tasks and responsibilities are followed through without falling between the cracks. With visibility and communication across departments, the technology helps healthcare professionals manage important day-to-day tasks like patient flow, resources, and capacity.
Hospitals using DNV Imatis have reported productivity increases of up to 20%, driven by more effective coordination and workflow execution.
- Sonitor Technologies – ultrasound location tech builds live map of hospital movements
Knowing where staff, patients, and equipment are – precisely and immediately – could make the difference between a timely intervention and a near miss. Sonitor Technologies is leading the real-time locating system (RTLS) field with its ultrasound technology, providing hospital staff with precise location data for improved workflows.
Sonitor covers the movement of people and equipment from zone to room, to bay and down to chair level and can be used to locate staff quickly. It can also act as a panic system when teams need to mobilise quickly to a certain location, and integrates with existing systems.
Unlike Wi-Fi or Bluetooth beacons that can drift by several metres, Sonitor’s tags and ceiling sensors deliver accuracy to below a metre, and are immune to radio-frequency interference, which is crucial in environments such as intensive care or interventional radiology suites.
- Deepinsight – AI-powered organisation of complex operating theatre schedules
Operating rooms are among the most resource-intensive and strategically vital areas of any hospital. Yet many hospitals still lack robust tools to support effective planning. In the absence of reliable insights – and without systems that can suggest practical, data-driven plans – surgical scheduling often relies on tacit knowledge and manual processes. This approach leads to missed opportunities for better utilisation, increased operational costs, and difficulty aligning daily activities with long-term goals.
Surgical planning is inherently complex, requiring coordination of factors like demand, staffing, room capacity, and equipment. Frequent disruptions – such as staff shortages, emergencies, and cancellations – make it even more challenging, often resulting in long waits, underutilised resources, and costly rescheduling.
Deepinsight’s software meets this challenge by transforming historical hospital data into clear, predictive, and actionable scheduling support. It generates optimised daily operating room plans that align actual capacity with demand. These plans take into account key factors such as staff availability, room usage, overtime risk, and recovery bed needs, helping hospitals balance resources effectively and deliver on their operational and strategic objectives.
Early adopters have reported encouraging results, including roughly a 20% reduction in waiting lists for ear, nose, and throat day surgeries.
- EG CheckWare – assessment and follow-up treatment through a fully digital system
Fragmented paper-based assessments and manual follow-up routines are taking precious time from clinicians and can even cause delays and errors. EG CheckWare replaces these with a digital platform that collects clinical data and provides a two-way communication tool for patient engagement and treatment – completely remotely.
Since its launch, EG CheckWare has enabled over 11 million patient interactions digitally, reducing administrative burdens on healthcare professionals and improving the quality of care.
The platform integrates with existing patient records and IT infrastructure and is currently in use across multiple NHS trusts and 95% of the public trusts in Norway.
Utilising Norwegian tech for better healthcare delivery
These five Norwegian companies show how focusing on innovation to address pressing challenges in the healthcare sector can streamline workflows, ease the burden on healthcare professionals, and improve patient outcomes at the same time.
It’s clear from the early export success that Norwegian digital solutions can play an important role in elevating the standard of clinical care in Europe and worldwide.
