Funding your first pilot in 2026

For a care service, the hard part of new technology is rarely whether it works. The savings from digital supervision (digitalt tilsyn) are already documented across Norwegian municipalities. The hard part is getting the first pilot off the ground — and in 2026, that has quietly become easier.

The money is there, and it grew

Helseteknologiordningen — the national scheme that helps municipalities adopt health technology — has been strengthened to a total frame of NOK 199 million for 2026, its largest allocation yet. Within that, NOK 72.6 million is earmarked specifically for helping the municipal health and care service take technology into use, with priority given to projects that free up time for health personnel.

This is not a niche programme. In the 2025 round, nearly every municipality and county took part in at least one application. The infrastructure for funding a pilot is already something your neighbours are using.

Start small, on purpose

The right entry point is not a price list — it is a pilot. Begin with one ward, or a handful of home-care users, prove the value in your own setting, then scale. Many municipalities run that first pilot largely on national funding rather than out of an already-stretched operating budget.

This is where Stillsense fits the moment. Because it retrofits onto the Wi-Fi a home already has, with a small sensor and minutes of setup, the cost of a pilot drops by an order of magnitude compared with fitting a dedicated unit in every room. A low entry cost and available national funding point the same way: the question stops being can we afford to try and becomes what are we waiting for.

The NOK 199 million and NOK 72.6 million figures describe Helseteknologiordningen for 2026 (Helsedirektoratet); they are sector funding totals, not amounts allocated to Stillsense.