Today marks a significant achievement for the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) with the announcement of the 2023 version (2023.2) of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework. This latest release subercedes the 2023.1 release, which was softlaunched earlier in March, and sets the foundation for all SPHN National Data Streams and Demonstrator Projects. Included in this …
14 September 2022 Access the online version of the SPHN Technical Newsletter here. Subscribe to receive future newsletters directly in your inbox Communications Preferences Subscribe to all SPHN Technical Newsletter SPHN Webinars SPHN DCC Training Leave this field empty if you’re human:
SPHN Quality Control Tools 21.07.2022 Ensuring data quality is of the utmost importance for personalized health research. Validation of data can be a cumbersome and time consuming process. In the Semantic Web, the Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) is used to facilitate the validation of RDF graph data against a given schema. However writing such checking …
07.06.2022 What does SPHN do for researchers? The new SPHN Factsheet has the answers. Take a look at the SPHN infrastructures, tools and services that have been developed to support researchers in doing complex and multi-site research studies with personalized health data, and the behind the scenes developments to make health data FAIR in Switzerland. Click Here
02.06.2022 Today, SPHN releases the 2022.1 edition of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework package including the SPHN Dataset (Pillar 1) and the SPHN RDF schema (Pillar 2). This important milestone was jointly achieved by the FAIR Data Team (formerly Data Interoperaibilty Team) of the SPHN Data Coordination Center, representatives from the University Hospitals and collaborators …
25 May 2022 Access the online version of the SPHN Technical Newsletter here. Subscribe to receive future newsletters directly in your inbox Communications Preferences Subscribe to all SPHN Technical Newsletter SPHN Webinars SPHN DCC Training Leave this field empty if you’re human:
25 May 2022 In 2021, SPHN and PHRT jointly launched the call for “National Data Streams” (NDS). After a two-step evaluation procedure, 4 NDS projects have been selected for funding. They are situated in the fields of infectious diseases in intensive care medicine, oncology, pediatrics, and health services research. Each of them comprises a Switzerland-wide …
Guidance on how to de-identify health-related data in compliance with Swiss legislation 20.05.22 The de-identification of health-related data postulates one essential approach to protect patient privacy and is a prerequisite for data sharing among a broader research community. Even though there are international guidelines available concerning the de-identification of data, there is no hands-on guidance …
17.05.2022 SPHN has launched its call for “Demonstrator” projects. These projects aim to demonstrate the added value of SPHN data resources and infrastructure elements for data-driven personalized health research, clinical and public health research, and clinical use. Submission deadline for applications is 31 August 2022. Demonstrator projects use the established SPHN infrastructures, processes, and frameworks …
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The Swiss Federal Council wants to enable research to make better use of health data Infrastructures built and insights gained by SPHN are central components in the implementation proposal for a national system for the reuse and linkage of health data. Read more (in French/German)…