The FSI team recently attended the 2025 ASHE Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference in Columbus, Ohio, connecting with facility leaders from across the country for four days of education, networking, and insights on how healthcare maintenance teams can optimize the healthcare built environment.
Through conversations at the FSI booth, educational sessions, and time spent outside of the exhibit hall, a theme became clear: the role of healthcare facility maintenance is transforming. As the industry evolves, so do the goals of teams on the ground. Modern facility teams are expected to manage complex compliance landscapes, proactively mitigate risk, and deliver strategic insights to leadership, all while ensuring safe, efficient environments. Let’s break down FSI’s top takeaways from ASHE HFIC — and how we’re helping customers prepare for the future.
During exhibit hours, the FSI team spoke with hundreds of attendees — hearing about their team priorities, frustrations, and needs from their software tools. Common threads were raised, with many discussions around asset data integrity, compliance readiness, and the need for smarter workflows. The consensus? Software tools, especially CMMS and EAM platforms, must evolve. Attendees echoed a clear shift in mindset: it’s no longer about simply tagging assets and setting up work orders. The tools at hand must support proactive maintenance, help ensure compliance, and enable data-driven decision making.
FSI is proud to be part of the transformation — offering purpose-built tools that take a CMMS beyond task tracking to empower teams with a strategic command center. As workflows shift toward more strategic and proactive actions, healthcare environments become safer and more resilient.
One of the most common discussion topics at ASHE HFIC 2025 was compliance management considering recently announced changes to Joint Commission (JC) standards, with updates taking effect on January 1st, 2026. JC is removing 714 requirements from the hospital accreditation program, introducing National Performance Goals (NPGs) that organize high-priority requirements into measurable topics, restructuring Environment of Care (EC) and Life Safety (LS) chapters into a single “Physical Environment” chapter, and making enhancements to the survey process, among other adjustments.
These changes are designed to align more closely with CMS’s Conditions of Participation and reduce administrative lift typically associated with compliance documentation — but with this shift comes new challenges. Facility professionals are now tasked with adjusting processes, schedules, and expectations to meet new standards.
Effectively navigating regulatory changes means staying informed and having a tool kit that is prepared to adapt to new priorities. As the industry as a whole shifts toward more transparency, better data, and digital enablement, there is opportunity to leverage these emerging focuses to confidently manage new workflows.
As a healthcare-specific CMMS/EAM, FSI is committed to supporting customers through every step of these changes — in the coming months, product enhancements will include adjustments to compliance-supporting features that align with new regulations, rather than requiring users to modify their instances on their own. We are striving to continue delivering solutions that make it simple to manage regulatory compliance, from centralizing data to automating essential reporting.
The landscape of healthcare facility management is changing rapidly, and support from intelligent tools is more crucial than ever. The teams that lean into the strategic capabilities of their technology and embrace a data-forward approach will lead the charge — and FSI’s CMMS is ready to support this evolution with modern tools that meet the specific needs of healthcare facilities teams.
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