Asset data dies at handover in most hospitals. The project team holds the model, the drawings, and the asset register in one set of tools; operations inherits a different set, plus a binder. A session at the IFHE 2026 World Congress presented the counter-case from Norway, where — per the official program — hospitals use the same software platform across construction projects, project controls, and asset management, and the data survives the handoff because there is no handoff between systems.
The session. “Data-Driven Decision-Making Across the Hospital Asset Lifecycle — How to Do More with Less” ran Monday, October 19, 2026, in the IFHE Exchange Pavilion at the HCD Expo Hall in New Orleans. As listed in the official program, it was presented by Gunnar Hansen, Business Development Manager for Healthcare at Omega 365.
What the program says the model is
One platform, three jobs. Per the program, Norwegian hospitals use the same platform for construction projects, project controls, and asset management. The significance is structural: the asset record an operator works with in year ten is the same record the project team built in year one, not a migration of it.
The connection is the content. The program states that connecting master data, BIM, drawings, rooms, and asset information across the lifecycle creates opportunities to improve project delivery and the utilization of existing facilities. Rooms are the telling item in that list — hospitals run on room-level reality, and room data is usually the first casualty of the construction-to-operations transition.
What was shown live, per the program
- Space utilization measured with IoT sensors — actual occupancy against assumed occupancy, in existing facilities
- Connections between BIM and BMS systems — the design model talking to the building management system that runs the plant
- AI-based analysis and prediction — applied to the connected data, per the program’s description
“Do more with less” is a utilization argument. The session’s subtitle frames the payoff as getting more from existing facilities — measured space use, connected systems, and analysis that finds capacity in the buildings a system already owns. For facility leaders facing capital constraints, that is the live question: what is already built, provably underused, and available without a bond issue?
The honest caveat for U.S. readers
The program presents this as Norwegian practice. It does not claim the model transfers unchanged to U.S. facility organizations, with their different procurement, project-delivery, and IT landscapes — and this article doesn’t either. What transfers is the standard to measure your own stack against: does your asset data survive handover intact, room by room, or does your team rebuild it from PDFs and memory in the first year of operations?
Related reading
- Best Practices for Managing Large Healthcare Campuses
- Capital Is Tight, Volumes Are Uncertain: How Health Systems Are Prioritizing Facility Investment
Session record
- Session: Data-Driven Decision-Making Across the Hospital Asset Lifecycle — How to Do More with Less
- Event: IFHE 2026 World Congress (29th), co-located with HCD Conference + Expo, October 17–20, 2026, New Orleans
- Slot: Monday, October 19, 2026, 11:00–11:45 a.m., IFHE Exchange Pavilion, HCD Expo Hall
- Speaker, as listed in the official program: Gunnar Hansen, Omega 365
- Source: IFHE 2026 World Congress official agenda
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