Leeuwarden Medical Center (MCL) is undergoing a digital transformation. The hospital wants its medical teams to be able to work remotely, at home or from other clinical locations. This requires that all applications are easily accessible from any location and device, but also that access is secure, as it involves confidential information.
MCL implemented an updated Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with help from PQR and Citrix has written an extensive reference case on this.
Remote application access creates different requirements
Since 20216, MCL has used Citrix technology to achieve secure and easy access to applications: Citrix ADC MPX appliances had been implemented for load balancing and to manage remote access. Given the age of these appliances and future requirements, the decision was made to replace them with a new generation ADC: Citrix ADC SDX.
“The need for remote access has existed for years, but COVID has changed everything,” says Roelof Mulder, Project Leader MIT at MCL. “We need access to Epic, to the Microsoft workplace tools and to many other specialized medical applications.”
The new Citrix ADC SDX appliance is a multitenant platform on which users can set up and manage multiple Citrix ADC virtual instances. The migration was supervised by PQR. Moving from MPX to SDX creates more opportunities for virtualization. This allows multiple entities to run in separate networks with separate workloads allowing MCL to separate traffic. This makes it possible to set different policies for each location and to separate the production and test environments.
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