The SPHN Data Coordination Center (SPHN-DCC): Consolidating the SPHN infrastructures beyond 2024

Since 2017, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) initiative has been coordinating the development of data infrastructures for the responsible use of health data for research throughout Switzerland. The Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics have been jointly responsible for implementing the mandate. After 2024, the foundations established by SPHN need to become permanently integrated into the Swiss research landscape.

A first Academies Report on the achievements of SPHN for the period 2016–2019 was published in 2021. This second publication summarizes the expectations and needs of the Swiss health research community for the long-term future of the SPHN-DCC. It furthermore sets out the technical, organizational, and financial requirements, giving special emphasis to the many interfaces of the SPHN-DCC with its partners in research, the healthcare system, and administration. As part of the developing Swiss research infrastructure and health landscape, the SPHN-DCC promotes data-driven medicine and personalized health at national and international scale.