Réseau PHARE

What Réseau PHARE does

Réseau PHARE is a Belgian regional hospital network founded in 2019 and headquartered in Soignies, Wallonia. It is a non-profit collaboration among four member institutions — Centre Hospitalier EpiCURA, CH Mouscron, CHR Haute Senne, and CHwapi — collectively operating 10 hospital sites, 2,162 beds, and approximately 8,500 healthcare professionals, delivering around 1 million patient consultations per year across Belgian Wallonia. Any two sites are within 30–60 minutes of one another, providing patients with broad regional access to general and specialised hospital services including surgery, oncology, dialysis, maternity, and vaccination programmes.

The network's primary technological initiative is POLARIS, a mutualised shared electronic patient record (dossier patient mutualisé) under development since January 2023 and targeted for full operational deployment in 2025 across EpiCURA, CHR Haute Senne, and CHwapi. POLARIS is intended to enable unified patient records and continuity of care across participating sites. The network also runs cross-institution programmes such as the HOST (Hospital Outbreak Support Team) hygiene initiative, annual congresses and symposiums, and COCOON influenza vaccination campaigns, and has entered scientific partnerships including a 2026 vaccination conference with Institut Pasteur de Lille.

Réseau PHARE is not a commercial entity. It functions as a coordination mechanism among its member public hospitals, with services funded through Belgium's national health insurance system (INAMI/RIZIV). The network itself employs approximately 9 staff and generates no separately disclosed revenue; value is created at the level of the member institutions rather than at the central coordination body. Its distribution channels are the physical hospital sites themselves, with go-to-market consisting of patient intake and inter-hospital referrals, supported by a website, LinkedIn presence, and public-health awareness campaigns.

Name

Réseau PHARE

Legal name

Réseau Phare

Website

https://reseau-phare.be

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Réseau PHARE is a Belgian non-profit regional hospital network coordinating four member institutions across 10 sites in Wallonia, delivering approximately 1 million consultations annually to the regional patient population through shared infrastructure and the POLARIS mutualised patient record system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospital Network

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (6221)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospital-Owned Physician Networks & Medical Groups (HLAFAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual Visit & Scheduling Platforms (EHR-integrated) (HLALABAA)

Keywords

• Hospital network
• Public healthcare services
• Inter-hospital collaboration
• Shared patient records
• Regional hospital coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

Baudour

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices17 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Healthcare service delivery: Réseau PHARE generates revenue through the provision of hospital and healthcare services at its four member institutions (EpiCURA, CH Mouscron, CHR Haute Senne, CHwapi). As a Belgian public hospital network, services are funded primarily through the national health insurance system (INAMI/RIZIV), with reimbursements for consultations, procedures, and hospitalisations. This is not a commercial entity but a public healthcare collaboration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Réseau PHARE operates a regional hospital collaboration network (réseau hospitalier locorégional) bringing together four member hospital institutions — Centre Hospitalier EpiCURA, CH Mouscron, CHR Haute Senne, and CHwapi — across ten sites in Belgian Wallonia. The network delivers integrated inpatient and outpatient healthcare services (general medicine, surgery, maternity, oncology, dialysis, vaccination) and is developing POLARIS, a mutualised shared patient record system planned for operational deployment in 2025 to enable unified patient files across the affiliated hospitals.

Product overview

Réseau PHARE is a regional hospital network (réseau hospitalier locorégional) comprising four hospital institutions: EpiCURA, CH Mouscron, CHR Haute Senne, and CHwapi. The network operates across 10 sites with 2,162 beds, 8,500 healthcare professionals, and handles 1 million consultations annually. The primary technological product is POLARIS, a shared patient file system (dossier patient mutualisé) designed to create unified patient records across the affiliated hospitals, enabling coordinated care delivery and information sharing across the network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• POLARIS - Dossier Patient Mutualisé (Mutualised Shared Patient Record) POLARIS is a shared electronic patient record system enabling unified patient files across three hospital institutions (EpiCURA, CHR Haute Senne, and CHwapi) within the PHARE network. It facilitates interoperability and continuity of care across sites for clinicians and patients of the affiliated hospitals.
• Hospital and outpatient care across the PHARE network (EpiCURA, CH Mouscron, CHR Haute Senne, CHwapi) Coordinated inpatient and outpatient hospital services delivered through four member institutions across ten sites in Belgian Wallonia. Services span general medicine, surgery, maternity, oncology, dialysis, vaccination, and specialised consultations. Capacity includes 2,162 beds and 1 million annual consultations, with patients accessing care directly at any network site based on referrals and care needs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1 million consultations per year across the network
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Institut Pasteur de LilleflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 April 2026The Institut Pasteur de Lille partnered with Réseau PHARE to co-organize a public conference on vaccination held on 14 April 2026 in Mouscron. The conference, titled 'Vaccination: les chercheurs face aux défis de demain' (Vaccination: researchers facing tomorrow's challenges), featured two renowned experts — Camille Locht (INSERM) and Emmanuel André (KU Leuven) — and explored the latest advances in vaccination research, future perspectives, and scientific and societal challenges.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Helora: Belgian regional hospital network formed by the merger of CHU Tivoli, CHU Ambroise Paré, and others in Hainaut. Directly comparable as a Belgian public hospital network consolidating multiple institutions under a single locoregional coordination model.
• Vivalia: Belgian non-profit hospital network operating across multiple sites in Belgian Luxembourg province. Directly comparable as a public hospital network coordinating independent institutions within a defined geographic region.
• Groupe Jolimont: Belgian hospital network operating multiple sites in Hainaut province, adjacent to the Réseau PHARE territory. Comparable as a regional hospital network with multi-site coordination serving a similar Walloon catchment.
• Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (CHC): Belgian Catholic hospital network operating multiple sites in Wallonia. Directly comparable as a multi-site hospital network serving the same Walloon patient population under Belgian public reimbursement.
• Grand Hôpital de Charleroi (GHdC): Major public hospital network in the Charleroi region of Hainaut, Belgium. Comparable as a Walloon public hospital operator of similar scale delivering services within the same national reimbursement framework.
• CHR de la Citadelle: Major public hospital in Liège region of Wallonia operating under a similar public reimbursement and collaborative governance structure. Comparable as a large Walloon public hospital institution that could participate in similar network models.
• Réseau Hospitalier Namurois (RHN): Belgian regional hospital network in Namur province, Wallonia. Most directly comparable as a same-structure locoregional hospital network coordinating multiple independent institutions under Belgian public healthcare policy.

Broad incumbents

• CHU de Liège: Large Belgian university hospital center in Wallonia. Comparable as a public hospital operator in the same region and reimbursement environment, but with a different academic/teaching mission than PHARE's coordination model.
• Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain): Large Belgian university hospital operating under public reimbursement. Comparable as a major Walloon hospital delivery organization but broader in academic and specialty scope than PHARE's regional coordination focus.

Others

• Santhea: Belgian federation of non-profit hospitals and care institutions. Comparable as an umbrella/coordination entity representing public hospital networks in Belgium, though operating as an advocacy and services body rather than direct care delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/r%C3%A9seau-phare

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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