UZ Leuven Healthcare
Belgium
Healthcare
Client background
UZ Leuven is Belgium’s largest university hospital and one of Europe’s leading healthcare institutions.
Each year the hospital delivers approximately:
🔹 776,000 outpatient consultations
🔹 186,000 patient admissions
🔹 58,000 surgical procedures
Supporting this level of clinical activity requires fast, secure and highly reliable wireless connectivity for clinicians, patients, visitors and thousands of connected medical devices.
The challenge
As the hospital expanded, its wireless network became increasingly complex.
Multiple generations of wireless infrastructure made upgrades difficult, while growing numbers of connected medical devices increased the demands placed on the network.
UZ Leuven needed a wireless healthcare solution capable of:
🔹 Providing reliable Wi-Fi for clinicians and patients
🔹 Simplifying IT operations
🔹 Securely connecting biomedical devices
🔹 Supporting connected medical equipment
🔹 Improving asset tracking throughout the hospital
🔹 Reducing network complexity
🔹 Accelerating troubleshooting
🔹 Supporting future digital healthcare initiatives
The hospital also wanted a more efficient way of tracking valuable clinical equipment without relying on expensive physical tags attached to every device.
We can easily identify if a client or AP is having a problem, correlate the data to quickly diagnose problems, which reduces mean time to resolution.
Team Lead IT, UZ Leuven
The solution
UZ Leuven deployed an AI-native wireless networking platform designed to improve user experience while simplifying network management.
The new infrastructure combines enterprise Wi-Fi, intelligent automation and secure device onboarding into a centrally managed platform supporting clinicians, administrators, patients and visitors.
The solution included:
🔹 Enterprise Wi-Fi across clinical and non-clinical areas
🔹 AI-powered network monitoring
🔹 Intelligent troubleshooting
🔹 Secure onboarding of biomedical devices
🔹 Automated network optimisation
🔹 Virtual Bluetooth asset tracking
🔹 Cloud-assisted network management
🔹 Secure connectivity for clinicians, patients and visitors
The platform also enables biomedical teams to securely connect new medical devices without complex manual configuration while giving IT greater visibility of network performance.
With HPE Juniper, we can deploy the new access points during the day without disruption to the users.
Team Lead IT, UZ Leuven
The result
The upgraded wireless infrastructure provides a more reliable and intelligent digital environment across the hospital.
Reliable clinical connectivity
The network delivers secure, consistent wireless connectivity for clinicians, patients, visitors and connected medical devices throughout the hospital campus.
Faster medical device deployment
Biomedical teams can securely onboard new connected medical devices without requiring intervention from the IT department, accelerating deployment while maintaining security.
AI-powered troubleshooting
Intelligent monitoring enables IT teams to identify and resolve wireless issues more quickly, reducing disruption for clinicians and patients.
Smarter asset tracking
Integrated location services allow the hospital to locate medical equipment quickly, helping clinical teams find essential devices while improving preventative maintenance.
Simplified IT operations
Automation and AI-driven insights reduce administrative workload, enabling IT teams to spend less time troubleshooting and more time supporting strategic healthcare initiatives.
Built for future healthcare
The AI-native platform provides a scalable foundation for continued digital transformation across clinical environments while supporting future healthcare technologies.
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