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21 December 2021 A solid data management plan over the entire project life cycle is essential for the development of FAIR research data. This includes data collection and documentation, ethics, legal and security issues, data storage and preservation, as well as data sharing and reuse. SIB’s Personalized Health Informatics group has developed an SPHN guide …
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The SPHN Federated Query System is online! 16 November 2021 Information retrieval systems enabling researchers to query for specific clinical information of patients have so far been limited to individual clinics or single hospitals. With the new Federated Query System (FQS), established in the realm of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), it is now …
15 October 2021 With the conclusion of the first funding phase 2017-2020 and the onset of phase II (2021-2024), SPHN had reached a critical turning point: Emphasized by the SPHN International Advisory Board (IAB) at the end of 2020, much progress had been made in enhancing the university hospitals’ clinical data management systems for finding …
6 October 2021 SPHN announces the comprehensive release of the SPHN FAIR Data Ecosystem, summarized in our recent preprint*. A flexible graph-based schema for data representation is at the core of the SPHN interoperability strategy. It allows research projects to semantically annotate and link existing data in a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) way. To …
1 October 2021 Swiss cohorts house high-quality and cost-intensive data collections which see their value often hindered by a lack of visibility. As part of its commitment towards a FAIR and sustainable use of health data, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) started a collaboration with Maelstrom Research to enables Swiss cohort studies to integrate …
30 September 2021 Prof. Antoine Geissbühler is the new Chair of the National Advisory Board (NAB) of SPHN, succeeding Prof. Torsten Schwede. To strengthen the expertise of the NAB in the field of omics and data analytics, two additional members, Prof. Jacques Fellay and Dr. Marija Buljan, have been appointed. Antoine Geissbühler is Vice Rector …
10 September 2021 Standards such as SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10 and ATC provide the foundation for a common medical language required to semantically represent health data. While different medical domains in healthcare and research use diverse terminologies, SPHN provides a FAIR data ecosystem to link health data. An essential component of this ecosystem is the …
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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, …
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