Working Groups

The DASAQ Working Group develops standardization and basic quality control processes for hospital data. Standardization and coding of data should happen as early as possible in the processing chain in order to be universally usable (for research and other purposes, e.g., support of registries, public health data collections, data deliveries to authorities, etc.).

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Chair: Sabine Österle

Coordination: Jan Armida

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The ITAC Working Group develops an IT architecture and maintenance plan for a hospital data delivery pipeline which provides high quality data and is sustainable and cost-efficient for hospitals to operate and maintain.

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Chair: Katie Tehya Kalt (USZ)

Coordination: PHI

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The RDF Working Group develops the SPHN RDF Schema and easy-to-use streamlined processes to deliver high-quality SPHN compliant RDF data in each hospital.

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Chair: Vasundra Touré

Coordination: PHI Group

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With the establishment of a national query system allowing researchers to assess the feasibility of their projects searching across consented data of all five university hospitals, SPHN reached an important milestone. The FQS Working Group, who contributed significantly to the FQS establishment, is in charge of the coordination and alignment of all activities around the SPHN FQS in the five university hospitals in the operational phase including further developments of the system

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Chair and project management: Sabine Österle and Roger Mathis (IT-Logix)

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The Semantic Working Group is responsible for further development and extension of the SPHN Dataset as well as associated documentation and training in line with the SPHN Semantics Strategy. The current edition of the SPHN Dataset contains the core concepts for clinical data and is continuously extended according to the needs of the SPHN projects.

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Chair: Kristin Gnodtke

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The Data Governance Working Group aims to align on a responsible data sharing strategy considering institutional data governance and researchers' interest in compliance with Swiss legal and ethical regulations. The Group will tackle different challenging topics of nationwide interest considering established SPHN legal and ethical frameworks, for which so far no clear guidance exist.

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Chair: Elke Mittendorf, USZ and Pascale Meister, CHUV

Coordination: Julia Maurer, SIB PHI Group; Fréderic Erard & Mathilde Heusghem, SIB Legal and Technology Transfer Office

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Observing stakeholders: swissethics, SAKK, Patient representatives, interpharma, innosuisse, unitectra, SPHN ELSIag, SCTO, SBP