Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN)
Infrastructure building to enable nationwide use and exchange of health data for research

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.

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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

Our article on the technical implementation of the second pillar of SPHN's Interoperability Strategy was published in Nature Scientific Data. In collaboration with our partners from university hospitals, the SPHN Data Coordination Center (DCC) describes the realization of the FAIR principles for sensitive health data to promote the sharing and reuse of scientific data. Read the full paper here...

SPHN supports 11 Demonstrator projects with CHF 4.3M

The supported Demonstrator projects will test infrastructure elements and data resources established in the realm of SPHN to demonstrate their added value for the network and to identify the remaining gaps. Read more…

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…

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