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The SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework provides a common language, guidelines as well as tools required to gather health data for research in a FAIR manner. The SPHN Dataset describes the meaning of sharable data by using internationally recognized semantic standards. In order to have an exchange format representing the semantics and the connections between the …

SPHN announces the 2024.2 release of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework Read More »

09.01.2024 The research concept Health defines the Confederation’s research activities and priodities in the filed of health for the years 2025-28. The use of routine healthcare data for data-driven medical research is becoming increasingly important. This data is particularly crucial for discovering new correlations between the biological characteristics of patients and their health or disease …

FOPH research concept “Health 2025-2028” Read More »

SPHN Connector: Public release of our open-source tool  We are happy to announce the public release of the SPHN Connector version 1.3.0 – a significant milestone in our mission to facilitate seamless data integration within the SPHN ecosystem. This release represents a major step forward in simplifying the process of connecting hospitals and other data …

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Translated from the Press Release (download) by: Medical Informatics Initiative Support structure – Office of the National Steering Committee c/o TMF e. V. ∙ Charlottenstraße 42/Dorotheenstraße ∙ 10117 Berlin National initiatives for health data infrastructures from Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands in exchange Experts from three national initiatives met at a workshop in Berlin on …

Towards the European Health Data Space Read More »

The SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework builds a complete ecosystem around Semantic Web technologies to make health-related data FAIR. From an Excel-based SPHN Dataset, SPHN projects need to create an RDF schema, related SHACL rules for helping data validation, SPARQLs for data exploration and ideally a documentation to better visualize the schema. This requires SPHN projects …

Release of the SPHN Schema Forge web service and the SPHN Dataset2RDF Tool. Read More »

By: Deepak Unni, Scientific Coordinator, SIB PHI Group The use of Semantic Web technologies for organizing knowledge has had increasing adoption in recent years. Such technologies provide a way to organize biological and biomedical knowledge to represent complex interrelationships within and across sub-domains of biology. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the SWAT4HCLS 2023 …

Reflections on the SWAT4HCLS Conference in Basel Read More »

Today marks a significant achievement for the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) with the announcement of the 2023 version (2023.2) of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework. This latest release subercedes the 2023.1 release, which was softlaunched earlier in March, and sets the foundation for all SPHN National Data Streams and Demonstrator Projects. Included in this …

SPHN Dataset & RDF Schema 2023 release Read More »