The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) provides the infrastructure for research with health data.
SPHN supports researchers throughout all phases of their projects: from identifying relevant data and meeting legal requirements to providing a secure environment for data analysis. The network also promotes the quality of clinical data by enabling hospitals to make their data interoperable in line with national and international standards.
SPHN is mandated by the Swiss Confederation and is under the responsibility of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) in collaboration with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
News
New SPHN Sounding Board launched
On 4 March 2026, the newly established Sounding Board of the Swiss Personalized Heath Network (SPHN) held its inaugural meeting in Bern. Discussions included prioritization of SPHN’s strategic goals for 2026-2028. Read more...
CPCR Service Finder for clinical research: a new tool to access services across organizations
The CPCR Service Finder, a new collaborative, user-friendly tool, has been developed by the national Coordination Platform Clinical Research (CPCR) with the technical expertise of Swiss Biobanking. It allows to browse among services from the main national research infrastructures in one click, and to identify whom to approach for support. Read more...
New schema release: The SPHN journey continues
The SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework’s 2026.1 release improves consistency across the SPHN Schema and provides further alignments to data reality in the Swiss health-data landscape, with a focus on microbiology, drug prescriptions, and nutrition-related aspects. Read more...
New healthcare institutions onboarded to SPHN
Several cantonal hospitals and the Swiss Cancer Institute (SCI) are now ready to contribute clinical data to multisite research projects in personalized medicine. Read more...
Events
Key events and training in the realm of the Swiss Personalized Health Network
17th International SWAT4HCLS Conference
EFMI MIE 2026: “Opening the Personal Gate between Technology and Health Care”
ISCB GMDS Annual conference 2026: “Transitions in the age of biomedical AI”
SCTO Online Webinar: “The SPHN Clinical Routine Dataset”
Webinar: “The SPHN Federated Clinical Routine Dataset” (MIRACUM-DIFUTURE Kolloquium)
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The CPCR Service Finder has been developed by the national Coordination Platform Clinical Research (CPCR).