Welcome to the new sphn.ch website
To best serve the SPHN community, you can now find all relevant information from both, the SPHN initiative and the SIB Personalized Health Informatics Group (PHI).
First review report of the International Advisory Board
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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Call for Candidatures – Closed
To strengthen the infrastructural aspects of the initiative, a “Call for Candidatures” is launched to elect a chairperson and 3 – 4 members of the National Advisory Board (NAB).
New online course: SPHN Data Privacy & IT Security
Dealing with confidential human data requires awareness of data privacy, respective laws and the latest information security requirements.
SPHN at a glance: new fact-sheet 2019
The new SPHN fact-sheet 2019 aligns all stakeholders on the vision, the mandate, the national governance, and the implementation of SPHN. This large-scale, national initiative rallies all decision-makers from key clinical, research, and research support institutions as well as patient organizations around the same table.
Defining principles in close dialogue with research – the work of the expert working groups
To ensure nationwide interoperability of biomedical data, a variety of technical and semantic challenges need to be addressed, ranging from the agreement on common data standards, to building a federated secure IT infrastructure.
BioMedIT: Progress towards achieving interoperability of scientific computing facilities
The key objective of the SPHN is to enable cutting-edge personalized health research by establishing nationwide interoperability of health data. Today we report progress achieved in BioMedIT, a project aimed at setting up a nationwide network of secure computing infrastructures, enabling clinical and biomedical research. Each BioMedIT node is affiliated to SIB partner Universities, namely sciCORE, Vital-IT, and SIS.
Common templates to facilitate data and material exchange
SPHN and Swiss Biobanking Platform (SBP) have worked in close collaboration to deliver Data Transfer and Use Agreement and Material Transfer Agreement templates to facilitate data and material exchange in the context of academic research projects. In order to be able to exchange data and samples for research projects between institutions, a Data Transfer and …
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University Hospital IT departments join forces within SPHN: welcome to the new Hospital IT Working Group of the DCC
The new Hospital IT Working Group of the DCC brings together representatives of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) departments of the five University Hospitals, in order to promote the development of the Swiss-wide IT infrastructure and accelerate the harmonization process regarding the implementation and adoption of technical solutions within SPHN.
Interview with Katrin Crameri and Torsten Schwede, passing the baton
On 1 March 2019, Katrin Crameri took over the leadership of the Personalized Health Informatics (PHI) Group responsible for the Data Coordination Center of SPHN. In an interview, they share their vision of the PHI group’s mandate and their common longstanding passion to make data-driven medicine a reality in Switzerland. Read the Interview…