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 …
1 June 2021 On the road towards establishing a Swiss personalized health ecosystem, SPHN and PHRT have launched a joint call for proposals for National Data Streams (NDS). NDS are multidisciplinary consortial research infrastructures (platforms) involving a national network of clinical and science/engineering partners. NDS that build on pre-existing infrastructures and data sets are preferred, …
Joint Call for Proposals: National Data Streams (NDS) Read More »
28 May 2021 Switzerland has a long tradition of high-quality cohort studies collecting a large variety of health-related data. In order to exploit their full potential, the further use of these cost-intensive data collections – in accordance with regulatory requirements – must be enabled and promoted. As an important step in this direction, the …
SPHN calls Swiss cohorts to join the international Maelstrom catalogue Read More »
SPHN gladly announces the new release of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework including the SPHN Dataset (Pillar 1) and the SPHN RDF schema (Pillar 2). In order to combine data from different sources, the semantic meaning of the data needs to be interpretable by both humans and machines. To have an exchange format, which can …
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Thomas Geiger is the new Managing Director of SPHN as of 1 March 2021, after an ad interim period during which the Management Office (MO) was joined with the Department Science of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences under the lead of Myriam Tapernoux. In addition, Sarah Vermij strengthens the SPHN team as new scientific …
The report of the National Steering Board, published in the Swiss Academies Reports series, presents the many infrastructures, technologies and methods that SPHN and its partners have developed since the launch of the initiative to enable research with large amounts of sensitive data in a responsible, ethical, secure and legally compliant manner. One of the …
New Publication: Report from the National Steering Board 2016 – 2019 Read More »
SPHN is featured in edition 102(4) of the Bulletin des médecins suisses; “Over the last twenty years, personalized medicine has established itself as a trend of patient-oriented research and will most likely continue to play an increasing role in shaping our healthcare in the future. Thanks to excellent research, innovation and its high-quality healthcare system, …
SPHN in the BMS – the Future of Medicine is Personalized Read More »
The Confederation renews the mandate of the Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics for a second SPHN funding period for 2021 to 2024. A total budget of 66.9 Mio CHF is foreseen. After the successful establishment of many new infrastructures, technologies and methods enabling researchers and clinicians to …
The contractual architecture for a collaborative use of health-related data depends on the project specifications and responsibilities of the parties involved. The new, modular set of legal agreement templates – elaborated by SIB for SPHN, in collaboration with Swiss data providers and data recipients – build on the SPHN DTUA (version 1.0) developed in 2019, …
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Find out about the current status of the initiative, its perspectives and goals for the next funding period, and its impact on society – from citizens and researchers to hospitals and partners. “Since 2017, SPHN has developed over 70 infrastructures, technologies and methods enabling researchers and clinicians to safely use large sets of health data …