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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 »

Find out about the current status of the initiative, its perspectives and goals for the next funding period, and its impact on society – from citizens and researchers to hospitals and partners. “Since 2017, SPHN has developed over 70 infrastructures, technologies and methods enabling researchers and clinicians to safely use large sets of health data …

SPHN Fact-Sheet 2020 – Where do we stand today Read More »