Onboarding of new institutions to SPHN (e.g. cantonal hospitals)

The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) cantonal hospital onboarding program aims to extend and standardize health data exchange across Swiss healthcare institutions. Each new member of the SPHN network further paves the way to multi-site research and personalized medicine across Switzerland.

The onboarding process 

To ensure that Swiss health data can be shared and interpreted consistently across institutions and research projects, all interested institutions map internal clinical data to internationally recognized standards - including SNOMED CT and LOINC. The further transformation to the SPHN data exchange format for research is achieved by using the SPHN Connector. 

Secure IT infrastructure by BioMedIT 

The data-providing institutions are connected to BioMedIT, SPHN’s trusted national IT environment for secure health data research. This ensures that sensitive health data remains protected while allowing researchers to transfer and access harmonized, high-quality datasets for health research. 

Your contribution is a success for the Swiss health research landscape 

By enabling healthcare institutions to securely share high-quality, standardized health data, SPHN paves the way for collaborative, data-driven research and ultimately, for more personalized and effective patient care. This is highly relevant on Switzerland's way to a more connected and interoperable health data ecosystem.