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 …
Terminology Service of the SPHN Data Coordination Center (DCC) Read More »
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, …
Joint Call for Proposals: National Data Streams (NDS) Read More »
28 May 2021 Switzerland has a long tradition of high-quality cohort studies collecting a large variety of health-related data. In order to exploit their full potential, the further use of these cost-intensive data collections – in accordance with regulatory requirements – must be enabled and promoted. As an important step in this direction, the …
SPHN calls Swiss cohorts to join the international Maelstrom catalogue Read More »
SPHN gladly announces the new release of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework including the SPHN Dataset (Pillar 1) and the SPHN RDF schema (Pillar 2). In order to combine data from different sources, the semantic meaning of the data needs to be interpretable by both humans and machines. To have an exchange format, which can …
SPHN Interoperability Framework with new RDF schema for data exchange Read More »
SPHN and PHRT will launch the long-awaited Call for National Data Streams on 1 June 2021. Stay tuned – all information will be released on the SPHN and PHRT websites on that date. The provisional timeline is as follows: 1 June 2021 Call launch 21 June 2021, 10-13h Workshop for all interested applicants 22 August …
The National Advisory Board (NAB) is a consulting body of the Swiss Personalized Health Network Initiative (SPHN) with the following mandate: Infrastructure Roadmap: Provide advice on health research infrastructure development to the National Steering Board (NSB), the Data Coordination Center (DCC), and the BioMedIT Board, similar as the ELSI advisory group does for ethical aspects …
Call for candidatures: Election to become a member of the SPHN National Advisory Board Read More »