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 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...
Clinical data from 800,000 patients unlocked: Empowering health research with a large-scale, FAIR dataset from Switzerland
SPHN has released the metadata of a uniquely rich national clinical dataset, spanning 800,000+ patients and billions of semantically harmonized data points across diagnoses, procedures, labs, medications, vital signs, oncology, and more. Researchers can now easily discover what data exists and how to access it. Read more...
Events
Key events and training in the realm of the Swiss Personalized Health Network