Brightlands Smart Health Lab

A collaboration between Maastricht University and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, working hand-in-hand with Maastro Clinic and 6 key industry and societal partners.

Brightlands Smart Health Lab

Minderbroedersberg 4-6, 6211 LK Maastricht

About the lab

The Brightlands Smart Health Lab is dedicated to bridging the gap between advanced AI research and personalized clinical practice.

The lab’s mission and vision are to build the fundamental knowledge base, technological tools, and human capacities necessary to create a smarter, more personalized learning health system, enabling data to be made FAIR, predicting future health outcomes, and embedding AI into daily care.

The impact of the lab lies in accelerating digital health innovation, achieved by validating breakthroughs directly in real-world clinical settings alongside hospital and industry partners, empowering patients and clinicians through shared decision-making, and embedding explainable, accountable, and socially responsible AI frameworks to build trust across the healthcare ecosystem.

Research projects

Make Health Data FAIR (TRL 1–7) – Focuses on transforming unstructured medical records and images into Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data using natural language processing, automated image processing, and knowledge graphs.

Make AIs to Predict Outcomes (TRL 3–6) – Focuses on developing deep learning, machine learning, and causal models to forecast future health states and treatment outcomes based on specific clinical interventions.

Introduce AI into Healthcare (TRL 4–8) – Focuses on deploying AI models directly into health systems and evaluating their clinical impact through patient and clinician shared decision-making tools.

People

Partners

‍Maastricht University provides academic research, high-performance computing infrastructure, scientific promotion, and ethical/legal supervision across multiple faculties.

‍Zuyd is a university of applied sciences located in the heart of Europe that focuses on education for students, research for companies and institutes, and training courses for professionals.

‍Maastro Clinic offers specialized radiotherapy care, patient data, and clinical validation environments for AI models.

‍Maastricht University Medical Centre+ is a partnership between Maastricht University Hospital and Maastricht University’s Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences.

‍Ilionx is an IT service provider in healthcare that offers consultancy for hopitals and healthcare institutions.

‍Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL) is an independent knowledge institute for oncological and palliative care.

Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS) connects Maastricht University’s academic knowledge and expertise in data science with societal needs.

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Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus bridges health science with entrepreneurship to commercialize research into public health innovations.

Brightlands Smart Services Campus hosts the lab’s regional network and facilitates knowledge transfer across startups, enterprises, and research institutions.