25 November 2021 At the beginning of 2018, SPHN and the five university hospitals signed collaboration agreements for building interoperable clinical data management systems. Thereby, the foundation was laid for the close cooperation between SPHN and the hospitals to support nationwide research with health-related data within the framework of the initiative. The review of SPHN’s …
Renewal of the Collaboration Agreements until 2024 Read More »
15 October 2021 With the conclusion of the first funding phase 2017-2020 and the onset of phase II (2021-2024), SPHN had reached a critical turning point: Emphasized by the SPHN International Advisory Board (IAB) at the end of 2020, much progress had been made in enhancing the university hospitals’ clinical data management systems for finding …
1 October 2021 Swiss cohorts house high-quality and cost-intensive data collections which see their value often hindered by a lack of visibility. As part of its commitment towards a FAIR and sustainable use of health data, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) started a collaboration with Maelstrom Research to enables Swiss cohort studies to integrate …
30 September 2021 Prof. Antoine Geissbühler is the new Chair of the National Advisory Board (NAB) of SPHN, succeeding Prof. Torsten Schwede. To strengthen the expertise of the NAB in the field of omics and data analytics, two additional members, Prof. Jacques Fellay and Dr. Marija Buljan, have been appointed. Antoine Geissbühler is Vice Rector …
10 August 2021 In 2017, the Swiss Confederation decided to fund the BioMedIT network project, as integral part of SPHN. As a project of SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, the secure and cutting-edge IT environment BioMedIT is established nationally to support computational, biomedical research and clinical bioinformatics, ensuring data privacy. The results from the first BioMedIT phase (2017-2020) are …
The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) was launched in 2016 with the aim of facilitating the use and exchange of health data for research. In his role as inaugural Managing Director of SPHN, Adrien Lawrence competently and efficiently set up the Management Office, shaping the initiative’s governance structures and operational framework. He served as an …
Following an overall review of the initiative in 2019, the National Steering Board (NSB) of SPHN decided to create a National Advisory Board (NAB) in order to strengthen the infrastructural aspects of the initiative. In February 2020, the NSB elected the following experts as part of the NAB: Prof. Torsten Schwede, Chairperson Prof. Alexander Leichtle …
Between September and December 2019, SPHN reported and illustrated the activities of the last two years. In the SPHN fact-sheet, an overview of the initiative (mandate, governance, stakeholders), of the projects supported by SPHN, as well as of the BioMedIT project is presented. In the Review report (2019), the International Advisory Board (IAB) made an …
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December 2019 As per the Rules of Procedure and its mandate, the International Advisory Board (IAB) of SPHN has to provide a review on the progress of the initiative every two to three years. After submission of their first activity reports beginning of 2019, the project leaders of the first 15 SPHN funded projects and …
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