Publications

SPHN Factsheets and Reports

SPHN Factsheet

Short report

Peer-reviewed publications on SPHN activities

2024

Ormond KE, Bavamian S, Becherer C, Currat C, Joerger F, Geiger TR, Hiendlmeyer E, Maurer J, Staub T, Vayena E. What are the bottlenecks to health data sharing in Switzerland? An interview study. Swiss Med. Wkly., vol. 154, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2024, doi: 10.57187/s.3538.

2023

van der Horst, E.; Unni, D.; Kopmels, F.; Armida, J.; Touré, V.; Franke, W.; Crameri, K.; Cirillo, E.; Österle, S. Bridging Clinical and Genomic Knowledge: An Extension of the SPHN RDF Schema for Seamless Integration and FAIRification of Omics Data. Preprints 2023, 2023120373.
Unni, D.; Touré, V.; Krauss, P.; Crameri, K.; Österle, S. SPHN Strategy to Unravel the Semantic Drift Between Versions of Standard Terminologies. Preprints 2023, 2023120508.
Klopfenstein SAI, Thun S, Crameri K, Stellmach C. Mapping the SPHN Dataset to FHIR. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:133-134. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230082. PMID: 37203627
Landers C, Ormond KE, Blasimme A, et al. Talking Ethics Early in Health Data Public Private Partnerships. J Bus Ethics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05425-w
Martani A, Geneviève LD, Wangmo T, et al. Sensing the (digital) pulse. Future steps for improving the secondary use of data for research in Switzerland. DIGITAL HEALTH. 2023;9. doi:10.1177/20552076231169826
Touré V, Krauss P, Gnodtke K, Buchhorn J, Unni D, Horki P, Raisaro JL, Kalt K, Teixeira D, Crameri K, Österle S. FAIRification of health-related data using semantic web technologies in the Swiss Personalized Health Network. Sci Data. 2023 Mar 10;10(1):127. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02028-y. PMID: 36899064; PMCID: PMC10006404.

2022

Queralt-Rosinach, N., Moreno, P. A., Callahan, T., Delussu, G., Fraboulet, C., Jacobsen, J. O. B., … Welter, D. Mapping OHDSI OMOP Common Data Model and GA4GH Phenopackets for COVID-19 disease epidemics and analytics. (2022, November 25)
Fasquelle-Lopez J, Louis Raisaro J. An Ontology and Data Converter from RDF to the i2b2 Data Model. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 May 25;294:372-376. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220477. PMID: 35612099.

2021

Gaudet-Blavignac C, Raisaro JL, Touré V, Österle S, Crameri K, Lovis C. A National, Semantic-Driven, Three-Pillar Strategy to Enable Health Data Secondary Usage Interoperability for Research Within the Swiss Personalized Health Network: Methodological Study. JMIR Med Inform. 2021 Jun 24;9(6):e27591. doi: 10.2196/27591. PMID: 34185008; PMCID: PMC8277320.
Österle, S.; Touré, V.; Crameri, K. The SPHN Ecosystem Towards FAIR Data. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, SWAT4HCLS 2021, 3127-1, 19-28
Krauss P, Touré V, Gnodtke K, Crameri K, Österle S. DCC Terminology Service—An Automated CI/CD Pipeline for Converting Clinical and Biomedical Terminologies in Graph Format for the Swiss Personalized Health Network. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(23):11311. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112311311

2020

Lawrence AK, Selter L, Frey U. SPHN - The Swiss Personalized Health Network Initiative. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16;270:1156-1160. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200344. PMID: 32570562.
Coman Schmid D, Crameri K, Oesterle S, Rinn B, Sengstag T, Stockinger H; BioMedIT network team. SPHN - The BioMedIT Network: A Secure IT Platform for Research with Sensitive Human Data. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16;270:1170-1174. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200348. PMID: 32570566.
Blasimme A, Brall C, Vayena E. Reporting Genetic Findings to Individual Research Participants: Guidelines From the Swiss Personalized Health Network. Front Genet. 2020 Dec 11;11:585820. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.585820. PMID: 33362850; PMCID: PMC7759560.

2018

Meier-Abt PJ, Lawrence AK, Selter L, Effy V, Torsten S (2018). The Swiss approach to precision medicine. Swiss Med. Wkly 18 28–36. doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000274911

Publications in French/German:

Un écosystème de données au service de la médecine personnalisée. Böhm I. Bulletin des médecins suisse 2023;104(43):18–21 (in French).
Ein Ökosystem für die personalisierte Medizin. Böhm I. Schweiz Ärzteztg. 2023;104(43):18–21 (in German).
Daten über Krebserkrankungen besser erfassen und nutzen Rachamin Y, Horki P, Crameri K, Kasenda B, Antonov J, Aghayev E, Grimm M, Schulenburg J, Hugelshofer D, Maurer J, Michielin O, Röthlisberger M, Stieltjes B, Köberle D. Schweiz Ärzteztg. 2023;104(17):35-38
Die Medizin der Zukunft ist personalisiert Frey U, Geiger T, Selter L. Schweiz Ärzteztg. 2021;102(04):142-143
Ein ethischer Rahmen für den Austausch von Gesundheitsdaten Vayena E. Schweiz Ärzteztg. 2017;98(36):1138–1140
Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN): Die nationale Initiative im Überblick. Lawrence A, Selter L. Schweiz Ärzteztg. 2017;98(19):595–596

Communications from the Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences (SAMS) about SPHN

SAMS Bulletin: SPHN activities are featured in the quarterly printed SAMS bulletin, which provides information about current activities of the Academy and SPHN (available in German and French)

SAMS Newsletter: Important updates from SPHN are also published via the SAMS Newsletter.