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Connecting data in Switzerland for better healthcare
The challenge
Health data is stored in different formats in different hospitals and laboratories. Without a common language or appropriate security, it is difficult to link and analyse this data, limiting its potential to guide personalised care.
The solution
The Swiss Personalised Health Network (SPHN) provides the framework for harmonising and standardising health data from Swiss hospitals, then sharing it in secure environments. This enables researchers to analyse high-quality data in compliance with data protection laws.
The impact
By providing access to harmonised data from more than 800,000 consenting patients, and thanks to a secure storage and transfer platform used by more than 1,000 researchers, SPHN supports clinical research on a national scale and is helping to accelerate advances in personalised medicine, particularly in oncology, paediatrics and infectious diseases.
Did you know?
Launched in 2017 at the initiative of the Swiss Confederation, the Swiss Personalised Health Network ( SPHN) is a national data infrastructure coordinated by the Swiss Medical Science Association and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). It links six Swiss university hospitals (in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Zurich and Basel) and other healthcare institutions