The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) provides the infrastructure for research with health data.
SPHN supports researchers throughout all phases of their projects: from identifying relevant data and meeting legal requirements to providing a secure environment for data analysis. The network also promotes the quality of clinical data by enabling hospitals to make their data interoperable in line with national and international standards.
SPHN is mandated by the Swiss Confederation and is under the responsibility of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) in collaboration with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
News
Advancing collaborative cohort research in Switzerland
The first scientific publication by the SPHN Cohort Consortium (SPHN-CC) presents Switzerland’s coordinated network of cohort studies hosted on the Maelstrom metadata catalogue. By improving the discoverability and comparability of cohort data, the initiative supports harmonization efforts enabling new opportunities for collaborative research. Read more...
The SPHN Annual Report 2025 is now online
The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) presents its Annual Report 2025, highlighting key progress in providing the national framework and coordination needed to access, combine and reuse high‑quality health data for research. Read more...
SPHN and Federal Statistical Office strengthen discoverability and interoperability of health research data
The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) have launched a collaboration to improve the discoverability and interoperability of health datasets in Switzerland. Records from the SPHN Metadata Catalog are now fully integrated to I14Y, Switzerland’s national metadata catalog. Read more...
Viktor Award 2025: Thank you!
Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) was nominated for the Viktor Award 2025 in the category “Pioneering Achievement in the Swiss Healthcare System.” Thank you very much for your support! Read more...
Events
Key events and training in the realm of the Swiss Personalized Health Network
ISCB GMDS Annual conference 2026: “Transitions in the age of biomedical AI”
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