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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 …

Save the date: National Data Streams Read More »

The focus of this year’s first SAMS Bulletin is dedicated to SPHN. As the first SPHN funding period 2017-2020 has come to an end, the article summarizes work, milestones and challenges of SPHN and outlines plans for the second funding period 2021-2024. Switzerland is well-positioned to create a data-driven, learning health system, but hurdles to …

SPHN: a mid-term report in SAMS Bulletin 1/2021 Read More »

Thomas Geiger is the new Managing Director of SPHN as of 1 March 2021, after an ad interim period during which the Management Office (MO) was joined with the Department Science of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences under the lead of Myriam Tapernoux. In addition, Sarah Vermij strengthens the SPHN team as new scientific …

Changes at the SPHN Management Office Read More »

The report of the National Steering Board, published in the Swiss Academies Reports series, presents the many infrastructures, technologies and methods that SPHN and its partners have developed since the launch of the initiative to enable research with large amounts of sensitive data in a responsible, ethical, secure and legally compliant manner. One of the …

New Publication: Report from the National Steering Board 2016 – 2019 Read More »

SPHN is featured in edition 102(4) of the Bulletin des médecins suisses; “Over the last twenty years, personalized medicine has established itself as a trend of patient-oriented research and will most likely continue to play an increasing role in shaping our healthcare in the future. Thanks to excellent research, innovation and its high-quality healthcare system, …

SPHN in the BMS – the Future of Medicine is Personalized Read More »

The Confederation renews the mandate of the Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics for a second SPHN funding period for 2021 to 2024. A total budget of 66.9 Mio CHF is foreseen. After the successful establishment of many new infrastructures, technologies and methods enabling researchers and clinicians to …

SPHN funding period 2021-2024 Read More »

The contractual architecture for a collaborative use of health-related data depends on the project specifications and responsibilities of the parties involved. The new, modular set of legal agreement templates – elaborated by SIB for SPHN, in collaboration with Swiss data providers and data recipients – build on the SPHN DTUA (version 1.0) developed in 2019, …

Legal agreement templates for collaborative research projects Read More »