26 March 2024 The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into health research and care promises many advances for the future. At the technical level, the development of supporting algorithms however requires a large amount of meaningful, structured and interoperable data and, in practice, good regulation of AI applications. The interoperability efforts of SPHN provide a …
14 March 2024 The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) initiative coordinates the development of infrastructures for the responsible use of health-related data in research throughout Switzerland. The sharing of health data however faces repeatedly hurdles and bottlenecks. A recently published study sheds light on legal and ethical challenges besides technical aspects. Switzerland has numerous laws, …
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SAVE THE DATE for the upcoming symposium entitled “Data for Health: Joining Forces for a Swiss Health Research Data Ecosystem”, jointly organized by SPHN and PHRT on 31 October 2024 at the Kursaal in Bern. Over the past eight years, the collaborative efforts of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) initiative and the Personalized Health …
9 February 2024 Why do we need an initiative that puts efforts in the creation of infrastructures that enable the use of health data, particularly from routine care, for research purposes? In an interview of the podcast series “health terminal”, Dr. Thomas Geiger, Managing Director of the Swiss Personalised Health Network (SPHN) initiative, and Dr. …
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14 December 2023 The SPHN International Advisory Board (IAB) has been involved in the evolution of the initiative since the very beginning. With the exception of the time during the Covid pandemic, the IAB has reviewed the progress of the activities of SPHN on an annual basis, providing valuable input and recommendations. The 2023 IAB report …
2 October 2023 (updated on 4 December) Effy Vayena has been a dedicated contributor to the SPHN initiative from its inception. As chair of the ELSI Advisory Group (ELSIag) E. Vayena has made important contributions to laying the ground work of today’s network. With the Ethical Framework for Responsible Data processing, the ELSIag established one …
Susanne Driessen as new ELSIag Chair, farewell and thank you to Effy Vayena Read More »
In 2022, SPHN launched a call for Demonstrator projects. These projects will test the infrastructures, processes, and data resources established in the realm of SPHN to demonstrate their added value for the network and to identify the remaining gaps. From a total of 30 project applications, 11 Demonstrator projects were selected for funding. Two types …
SPHN supports 11 Demonstrator projects with CHF 4.3 M Read More »
The 2nd Personalized Health Day aims to make the achievements of SPHN and the ETH Strategic Focus Area «Personalized Health and Related Technologies» (PHRT) more visible, sensitize the community about the requirements for developing a sustainable data-driven health data ecosystem enabling personalized health research, foster interdisciplinary collaboration across domains/communities, and discuss the remaining gaps and …
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25 March 2022 Demonstrator projects aim to demonstrate the added value of the SPHN data resources and infrastructure elements for data-driven personalized health research, clinical and public health research, and clinical use. Demonstrator projects shall use the SPHN infrastructures, processes and frameworks to demonstrate the utility and fit-for-purpose of those SPHN ecosystem elements and identify …
21 February 2022 Successful approaches for personalised medicine are becoming a reality. To show this, the International Consortium for Personalized Medicine (ICPerMed) features best practice examples. These are suggested by ICPerMed members and approved by ICPerMed. SPHN is since 2017 full member of ICPerMed and was recently featured as Best Practice example. The best practice …
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