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21 December 2021 A solid data management plan over the entire project life cycle is essential for the development of FAIR research data. This includes data collection and documentation, ethics, legal and security issues, data storage and preservation, as well as data sharing and reuse. SIB’s Personalized Health Informatics group has developed an SPHN guide …
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15 December 2021 SPHN is building a dynamic, scalable network of data providers to leverage the potential of health-related data for the benefit of society. Data generated through SPHN funds are considered to be a common good that should be made broadly accessible to all eligible parties. SPHN therefore encourages its grantees to share data …
SPHN issues guidelines for ethical health data sharing in public private partnerships Read More »
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 »
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The SPHN Federated Query System is online! 16 November 2021 Information retrieval systems enabling researchers to query for specific clinical information of patients have so far been limited to individual clinics or single hospitals. With the new Federated Query System (FQS), established in the realm of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), it is now …
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 …
6 October 2021 SPHN announces the comprehensive release of the SPHN FAIR Data Ecosystem, summarized in our recent preprint*. A flexible graph-based schema for data representation is at the core of the SPHN interoperability strategy. It allows research projects to semantically annotate and link existing data in a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) way. To …
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 …
