SPHN — Swiss Personalized Health Network
Overview
The Swiss Personalized Health Network is a national Swiss initiative that makes clinical health data from six university hospitals interoperable and securely accessible for research, and operates the Swiss node of the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (Swiss FEGA), connecting Swiss health data to the European GDI infrastructure. Launched in 2017 by the Swiss federal government and governed by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences with SIB, SPHN covers consented patients across hospital sites in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich adult, and Zurich children’s. Data harmonisation uses HL7 FHIR and SNOMED CT as its primary standards.
Connections
- implements: HL7 FHIR (primary standard for clinical data harmonisation across hospital sites)
- implements: SNOMED CT (clinical terminology used alongside HL7 FHIR for semantic harmonisation)
- relatedTo: EGA (Swiss FEGA is a national node of the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive)
- relatedTo: GDI (Swiss FEGA is interoperable with the European Genomic Data Infrastructure)
- relatedTo: SIB (SIB coordinates SPHN and operates BioMedIT and the Swiss FEGA node)
- relatedTo: FDPIC (SPHN operates under Swiss Federal Data Protection Act oversight)
- relatedTo: EHDS (SPHN metadata catalogue aligned with EHDS interoperability requirements)