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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 …

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7 December 2023 In comparison to other countries, Switzerland has a very good healthcare system and is known as one of the strongest locations for research and innovation. With respect to digitalization of the healthcare system, Switzerland however has a large backlog. On 22 November, the Federal Council approved the ‘DigiSanté’ program to promote the …

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