Developed over eight years, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) recently published the metadata catalogue for one of Switzerland’s largest and most comprehensive clinical datasets, covering semantically harmonised data points of more than 800,000 patients from Switzerland’s University Hospitals.

About this session
This seminar session will provide an overview of the SPHN Federated Clinical Routine Dataset, a remarkable resource designed to give healthcare researchers access to vast amounts of patient data for further use research according to HRO chapter 3.

The session will take place on Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 12:00-13:00.

Target audience
Researchers and study teams with planned, ongoing, or completed HRO projects (observational studies).

Session topics:

• Structure and criteria of the dataset
• Key achievements of the project
• Challenges in the development
• Relevance of the dataset and metadata catalogue for healthcare researchers
• Future project developments

Speaker
Dr. Sabine Österle, Lead of the Semantic Interoperability Strategy & FAIR Data Team, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) / Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN)

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Upcoming sessions
Three additional sessions are planned for 2026. Further information will follow soon. Please save the dates in your calendar.

20.05.2026 – Presentation by SwissPedNet
23.09.2026 – Presentation by Swiss Biobanking
25.11.2026 – Presentation by Swiss Cancer Institute