Swiss Personalized Health Network

Since its creation SPHN has established the framework that enables hospitals to provide treatment data for research. The network ensures a legally, ethically, and technically sound framework for data exchange, thereby promoting health data research based on the FAIR principles; ensuring that data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

 

In the 2025–2028 federal funding period SPHN will continue to ensure the coordination, interoperability, and secure use of health data. This includes a platform for searching and analyzing standardized data, the secure BioMedIT infrastructure, a national repository for genetic data, and the provision of hospital data through the National Data Stream consortia (NDS).

 

The SAMS is responsible for the mandate of SPHN’s Data Coordination Center (DCC) and will continue its successful collaboration with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

 

On the SPHN website you will find comprehensive information on the goals, funding, network partners, etc. of the initiative.

 

 

One year before the official ending of the initiative, SPHN has published a comprehensive report outlining strategies for ensuring the sustainable continuation of the SPHN data infrastructures beyond 2024. The report further formulates the expectations and needs of the Swiss research community concerning the activities of the SPHN-DCC, promoting the efficient and responsible secondary use of health data. The report is written in English with a summary in German and French. Printed copies can be ordered free of charge (format: A4).

 

At the end of the first funding period, SPHN has published a comprehensive report for the interested public in January 2021. The report is written in English with a summary in German and French.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swiss Personalized Health Network ensures continuity (17.03.2025)

 

Trusted framework for genomic data in human research: New SPHN Guidance (27.02.2025)

 

 

A new president for the Swiss Personalized Health Network (21.11.2024)

 

SPHN: Continuity despite change in DCC leadership (06.05.2024)

 

SPHN and PHRT invite for the «Data for Health» symposium (02.05.2024)

 

Where are the bottlenecks to health data sharing in Switzerland? (14.03.2024)

 

 

Open the Newsletter and scroll to read the English version.

 

SPHN: The ELSI Advisory Group in a new composition (05.12.2023)

New SPHN Factsheet focuses on the Swiss Health Data Space (12.10.2023)

 

SPHN: Report on the consolidation of SPHN data infrastructures (19.09.2023)

 

SPHN: Legal framework established for National Data Streams (11.07.2023)

 

The future of SPHN infrastructures from 2025 on (13.06.2023)

 

 

Open the Newsletter and scroll to read the English version.

 

SPHN supports 11 Demonstrator projects (24.11.2022)

 

What SPHN does for researchers (13.07.2022)

 

SPHN and PHRT support 4 National Data Streams (31.05.2022)

 

SPHN call for Demonstrator projects (24.05.2022)

 

Second call for Swiss cohorts to join the international Maelstrom catalogue (09.03.2022)

 

SPHN issues guidelines for ethical health data sharing in public-private partnerships (16.12.2021)

 

SPHN and the university hospitals renew the collaboration agreements until 2024 (25.11.2021)

 

SPHN: New tool for data query at the five university hospitals (17.11.2021)

 

Five additional Swiss cohorts can join the international Maelstrom catalogue (01.10.2021)

 

SPHN has launched two new calls: one for «National Data Streams» and one for cohorts (01.06.2021)

 

SPHN: changes in the Management Office (01.03.2021)

 

SPHN: Report from the National Steering Board 2016 – 2019 (01.02.2021)

 

 

Open the Newsletter and scroll to read the English version.

 

SPHN: second funding period 2021–2024 and new fact-sheet (14.12.2020)

Changement au Management Office – French version only (11.08.2020)

Discover the new website of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (24.02.2020)

Publication of a new factsheet on the occasion of the SPHN Review Meeting 2019 (01.10.2019)

 

SPHN and Swiss Biobanking Platform: publication of two key documents for researchers (28.05.2019)

 

 

Open the Newsletter and scroll to read the English version.

 

SPHN supports 10 projects with 9.6 million Swiss Francs (29 November 2018)

 

SPHN: Second call for proposals (15 March 2018)

 

SPHN: A strong signal from the University Hospitals (30 January 2018)

 

SPHN supports 15 projects with CHF 15.7 million (24 November 2017)

 

SPHN: First call for proposals (16 June 2017)

 

 

In addition to the SPHN initiative, the SAMS has dedicated various projects, publications and events to Personalised Health.

 

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