An initiative of the Swiss Government
The Swiss Personalized Health Network is a national initiative under the leadership of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS). In collaboration with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics it contributes to the development, implementation and validation of coordinated data infrastructures in order to make health-relevant data interoperable and shareable for research in Switzerland.
SPHN has adopted a federative approach by building upon – and supporting – existing data sources and infrastructures across the country. To make health data interoperable and accessible for research, SPHN rallies all decision-makers from key clinical, research-, research support institutions and patient organizations around the same table.
See the Governance Structure.
Read the SPHN Fact-Sheet.
News
SPHN Dataset and RDF Schema release 2023
The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) has released the 2023 version (2023.2) of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework. This latest release sets the foundation for all SPHN National Data Streams and Demonstrator Projects. Read more...
SPHN in Nature Scientific Data
SPHN supports 11 Demonstrator projects with CHF 4.3M
Swiss Cohorts explorable on the Maelstrom metadata catalogue
The SPHN Cohort Consortium contains curated metadata of 10 large Swiss cohorts to be explored in the Maelstrom catalogue (more will follow). Researchers from around the world have access to this open platform, which promotes data reuse and research collaborations. Read more…
SPHN FQS now open to researchers from Swiss universities
Data of more than half a million patients of the five Swiss university hospitals are now searchable in the SPHN Federated Query System (FQS), which is now also open for use by researchers as the Universities of Basel, Bern and Zurich, with other institutions to be added soon. Read more…
SPHN & PHRT support 4 National Data Streams
The 4 selected National Data Stream projects constitute central pillars of the SPHN health data ecosystem and the PHRT research platforms. They are launched 1 September 2022. Read more…
Events
Key events and training in the realm of the Swiss Personalized Health Network: