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)…
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3 March 2022 To promote findability of cohort data, SPHN launches an additional call for letters of intent for Swiss cohort studies interested in join the Maelstrom metadata catalogue. The catalogue, developed and curated by Maelstrom Research, is already serving the dissemination of more than 310 individual studies and 23 international networks covering a wide …
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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 …
Guidelines for the creation of a Data Management Plan Read More »
16 November 2021 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:
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 …