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SPHN has updated its legal agreement template. This version builds on experiences from multi-site project negotiations. It addresses key legal requirements, ensuring secure and transparent data sharing between contracting parties. The updated legal agreement template for data sharing and usage provides a comprehensive framework for the obligations of the participating parties. It consists of a …

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Navigating health care research with sensitive data can be complex, but SPHN is here to help. The SPHN Factsheet 2024 highlights the network’s most important tools and services both for researchers and hospitals. At SPHN, researchers find the support needed to realise multi-centered research projects with hospital data. The factsheet 2024 shows how to set …

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SPHN teams up with the Swiss Digital Pathology Initiative. By integrating digital pathology data in the network, the initiatives aim to advance precision medicine in Switzerland. We are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration between the Swiss Digital Pathology Initiative (SDPI) and the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN).  Together, the two initiatives aim to advance …

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At the Data for Health symposium, SPHN and PHRT celebrated the achievements from the past eight years. With over 450 participants, the symposium was a great success. Data helps improve patient treatment. The SPHN and PHRT initiatives have laid the groundwork for hospitals to share health data at scale for multi-center studies. At the Data …

Data for Health: Strengthening the community of data-driven health in Switzerland Read More »

SPHN is introducing the SPHN Data Exploration and Analysis System (DEAS). It offers researchers improved tools for conducting data queries and feasibility studies. This platform will replace the current Federated Query System, which will be discontinued by December 2024. SPHN is expanding its data query capabilities with the new Data Exploration and Analysis System (DEAS). …

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With this new SPHN metadata catalogue researchers can interactively visualize schemas and explore project metadata. It enables seamless navigation between datasets, improving  interoperability within the network of SPHN. Which projects use which data schemas? With the SPHN Schema Scope, the new metadata catalogue by SPHN, users can interactively visualize different schemas, and find and compare …

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The Swiss Personalized Health Network has announced the launch of a new program designed to integrate cantonal hospitals into the SPHN and BioMedIT network. This initiative aims to extend and standardize data delivery across Swiss healthcare institutions, to enable these hospitals to participate in multi-site personalized medicine research in the future. The cantonal hospitals participating …

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SPHN Mocker released 15 July 2024 The DCC announces the release of the SPHN Mocker, a Python library designed to facilitate the generation of SPHN-compatible mock data. With the increasing need for RDF data to test various tools and services within the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework, the SPHN Mocker allows users to effortlessly generate realistic …

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In 2023, SPHN met with representatives of the German and Dutch national health research data initiatives (Medizininformatik-Initiative (MII) and Health-RI respectively) in Berlin to compare experiences and best practice through discussions around legal frameworks, informed patient consent, semantic interoperability, data exchange processes, and failures and remaining challenges, amongst other topics. The three initiatives have taken …

Transnational health care research – carefully connecting the dots towards a European Health Data Space Read More »

27 June 2024 Many people contribute to the success of a national initiative like SPHN. In the two core teams in the SPHN Management Office at the SAMS and in the Data Coordination Centre (DCC) at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, two persons shaped developments significantly in recent years:  Thomas Geiger, managing director of …

Looking back, looking ahead: Interview with Katrin Crameri and Thomas Geiger Read More »