Case Study: Uniklinik Aachen achieves faster, personalized patient care and reduced ICU time with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Leading in Healthcare and Research with SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud

Universitätsklinikum Aachen (Uniklinik Aachen) is a 7,000‑employee university hospital with 35 clinical departments that combines patient care, research and education. Facing growing data volumes to enable personalized medicine, limited IT staff and budget, and the need for greater transparency and interoperability across departments—while maintaining strict EU data‑privacy requirements—the hospital needed a secure, centralized platform to build comprehensive patient records and improve care pathways.

Partnering with SAP Consulting, Uniklinik Aachen migrated to SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud in four months to create an integrated electronic patient record and standardized platform. The solution sped access to clinical data and analytics, enabled earlier sepsis detection, shorter ICU stays, fewer hospital‑acquired infections, optimized bed management, a >30% increase in case‑mix index (1.3 → 1.8) elevating its national standing, and delivered a 2.5 FTE reduction in IT workload, all while ensuring EU data‑sovereignty compliance.

Uniklinik Aachen

Volker Lowitsch

CIO