Webinar: "The SPHN Federated Clinical Routine Dataset" (MIRACUM-DIFUTURE Kolloquium)
10 March 2026 | online, ZOOM | 4:45pm (Zurich Switzerland time)
In January 2026, Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) released the metadata of a uniquely rich national clinical dataset, spanning 800,000+ patients and billions of semantically harmonized data points across diagnoses, procedures, labs, medications, vital signs, oncology, and more. (Read the full news item)
This webinar presents the SPHN Federated Clinical Routine Dataset in detail.
Speaker:
Dr. Sabine Österle – SPHN, Lead Semantic Interoperability Strategy & FAIR Data Team
Content:
The presentation will dive into the dataset’s content, semantics, and federated architecture, and discuss how this infrastructure unlocks large-scale, collaborative health research at national and international levels.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the design and scale of a national federated clinical data infrastructure and its challenges
- Explore how rich, knowledge-graph–based metadata support transparent data discovery
- Identify opportunities for international collaboration using large-scale, semantically interoperable clinical datasets.
About the MIRACUM-DIFUTURE Colloquium
In the colloquium, experts present new projects, results, developments, and relevant topics in medical informatics in a 20-minute presentation and answer questions from the audience. The format offers all participants an informal opportunity to refresh their existing knowledge, gain new insights, and engage in direct exchange.