Ably Medical

28/01/2026

Hiring alone won’t solve staff shortages in nursing homes.

The reality is simple. The number of adults aged 80 and over is expected to more than double by 2050. Care demand is rising fast. Staffing capacity is not.

That means tighter shifts. Higher workload. Less time for observation and meaningful care.

Staff shortages aren’t just a recruitment problem. They’re a workflow problem. And they affect safety, continuity, and staff well-being.

In our latest blog, we explore:
– What’s driving the shortage of staff in nursing homes
– How understaffing impacts daily routines and care quality
– What practical support can look like when time and staff are limited
– Where nursing home monitoring and remote monitoring can realistically help

👉 Read the full post: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0rh_jM0

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Strategies to handle nursing home staff shortages include flexible staffing, partnerships, improved culture, professional development, technology, and community engagement to enhance care delivery and sustainability.

15/01/2026

What will the reality of staffing in nursing homes look like in 2026? The outlook is clear: demand for long-term care is rising faster than the workforce.

Across Europe, the number of people over 80 continues to grow, while staffing levels in nursing homes struggle to keep pace. OECD data shows that the ratio of care workers to older adults has remained largely flat.

In 2026, many municipal nursing homes will face the same pressures:

- Fewer available caregivers per resident
- Higher workload per shift
- Greater reliance on part-time and temporary staff
- Increased risk of burnout and turnover

The challenge is not just recruitment. It’s sustainability. That’s why this year will be about working differently, not just harder:

- Reducing time spent on manual, repetitive tasks
- Supporting staff with better situational awareness
- Implementing technology that fits into daily routines, without adding complexity

💡 A good place to start: look closely at where staff time goes today. Small workflow improvements can add up to meaningful relief over a year.

11/12/2025

The smartest healthcare tech isn’t always the most complex...it’s the one that gets used.
Dr. Steffen Hamm (OTH Amberg-Weiden) shares a key lesson:

👉 Simpler, affordable solutions tend to work best
👉 Over-engineering leads to stalled progress
👉 Implementation, training, and feedback are more important than specs

“The real value isn’t in the tech itself, but in how well we implement it.”

Let’s stop chasing complexity and focus on what actually works for staff, patients, and the system.

20/11/2025

Thank you to everyone we met at 2025! If there was one word that defined EHIN this year, it was interconnectivity. 💡

A clear message emerged:
👉 There is no perfect, all-in-one solution, and there never will be. Healthcare will always need multiple tools and devices. Ideally fewer, yes. But there is room for strong, well-integrated solutions that solve real problems in practice.

And the biggest challenge is still the simplest one:
👉 It has to be easy. Easy to implement. Easy to use. Easy to trust in a busy shift.

Our own visits to hospitals and nursing homes this year have shown the same thing. Watching real workflows. Listening to frontline staff. Seeing what actually helps and what gets in the way.

This is what we’ll continue focusing on. Collaborating with frontline personnel, testing in real environments, and keeping things genuinely simple.

Because that’s how meaningful change happens — one practical improvement at a time.

07/11/2025

We’re heading to EHiN 2025, Norway’s leading arena for digital health!

Join us November 11–12 at X Meeting Point, Skjetten, where healthcare professionals, innovators, and decision-makers meet to shape the future of care.

📍 Find us at stand D12, we’d love to talk about how technology can truly support care teams and patients.

🎤 And don’t miss our debate with several Norwegian municipalities on how to choose technology that actually works — happening at 9:00 on November 12th at the Pink Box: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ppHbr0

For us, EHiN is about more than innovation, it’s about dialogue, collaboration, and finding real solutions together.

Let’s connect if you’re going too!

09/10/2025

Thanks to Business Norway, we met municipalities that are not just talking about welfare technology, but putting it to work. 🇳🇴🤝🇩🇰

During the Norwegian Trade Mission in Denmark, we saw how local initiatives are turning ideas into practice.

One example stood out: Vesthimmerland’s Living Lab—a setting where solutions are tested, refined, and scaled together with staff and residents.

This model demonstrates how technology can be integrated into everyday workflows, supporting both care quality and staff capacity. It’s a practical path for municipalities aiming to move from pilots to full-scale adoption.

The dialogue in Denmark showed what’s possible when collaboration meets real-world testing—and why Nordic cooperation matters more than ever.

18/09/2025

We joined the Norwegian Trade Mission in Denmark, hosted by Norway, together with municipalities, care providers, and innovators. 🇳🇴🤝🇩🇰

The conversations confirmed what we all know, Norway and Denmark face the same challenges:

>> Staffing shortages
>> An aging population
>> Rising need for preventive care

We listened closely to municipalities. Their feedback was clear and practical—highlighting both opportunities and obstacles in daily care. And insights from Stavanger’s e-health strategy underlined why Nordic collaboration matters if we want to scale what actually works.

⚕️We’ll share more insights from our discussions soon.

21/08/2025

Nurses carry one of the heaviest loads in healthcare—physically and mentally. The right technology should do more than improve efficiency.

It should make their work easier, safer, and more sustainable.

In this short interview, Iris Meyenburg-Altwarg shares how digital tools and smart systems can reduce strain, lower stress levels, and strengthen the working environment for clinical teams.

👉 Learn more about how routine, repetitive tasks can be shifted to technology to free up time for nurses in our latest blog post: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0ms8WP0

18/08/2025

We’re excited to be featured by Business Norway! 🚀

Our LYNG sensor system transforms any hospital bed into a smart bed, helping healthcare professionals save time, enhance safety, and deliver better care to patients.

Read the full story here 👉 https://businessnorway.com/solutions/lyng-sensor-system-turning-any-bed-into-a-smart-bed

Ably Medical is helping hospitals to improve patient safety and reduce staff workload with LYNG, a contactless smart sensor system integrated into hospital beds.

14/08/2025

Nurses carry a lot—patients to care for, vitals to track, and a constant mental checklist that never really stops. Continuous patient monitoring takes some of that weight off.

It delivers real-time vital sign trends without extra bedside checks, so teams can spot changes earlier, act faster, and spend more time with patients instead of chasing numbers.

As one nurse in the Netherlands told us: “Continuous insight into vital signs is like having extra eyes on the ward.”

The result?
>> Less stress and mental strain.
>> Fewer unnecessary interruptions for patients.
>> More time for the kind of care that really matters.

We’ve seen this in action—and it works.

👉Read how continuous monitoring changes the pace on the ward.

Continuous vital signs monitoring reduces mental strain for nurses by providing trend insights, saving time, and enhancing patient safety through early detection and quicker response.

23/07/2025

“Taking vital signs by hand, then trying to remember the numbers while moving on to the next task — it’s exhausting and takes too much time.”

That’s why continuous vital signs monitoring matters for clinicians, as well as patients.

Instead of checking once and guessing the rest, you get steady, real-time updates. It saves time, eases the mental load, and helps catch patient changes early.

Our CEO Mikkel puts it simply:
👉 “Continuous patient monitoring is the future of healthcare — and that’s what we’re building at Ably.”

Our system tracks vital signs without cables or wearables, but the real win is how it helps you during your shift.

We build it with clinicians, so it fits your workflow and lightens your load.

🎥 Hear more from Mikkel and share your thoughts.

17/07/2025

The smartest healthcare tech isn’t always the most complex—it’s the one that gets used.

In this video, Prof. Steffen Hamm (OTH Amberg-Weiden) shares a key lesson:

🔹 Simpler, affordable solutions often work best
🔹 Over-engineering leads to stalled progress
🔹 Implementation, training, and feedback matter more than specs
🔹 Real impact comes from tools nurses and clinicians actually use

“The real value isn’t in the tech itself, but in how well we implement it.”

Let’s stop chasing complexity and start focusing on what works—for staff, for patients, for the system.

🎥 Watch the full interview below.