OHDSI National Node Switzerland
Background
We are committed to building a robust and comprehensive semantic layer for clinical data at the hospital level, serving as a foundational resource for data-driven research and the advancement of precision medical care. This vision has guided our efforts to identify and implement tools that align with the goals of the Swiss Personalized Health Network, while actively seeking to expand our international collaborations. Our primary objective is to enable seamless interoperability and secure data sharing of health-relevant information to facilitate research both within Switzerland and globally. In pursuit of this, we have successfully developed a project-specific implementation of the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) at Inselspital Bern and are now embarking on the next phase in collaboration with a consortium of leading Swiss institutions.
In parallel, two collaborative initiatives - the ACROSS project and a CARESCORE project funded by the Research Project Digitalisation Commission (DigK) at the University of Bern - are currently underway. Both initiatives propose leveraging the OMOP CDM as the foundational framework for scalable, cross-institutional data sharing and research.
Objectives
- Strong Semantic Layer
- Ensure Data Interoperability from the first entry point
- Building Expertise in Terminologies
- Medical Decision Support and Research
Node Members
Leading Organization
Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Medical Directorate, Contact:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Members
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Name |
Organisation |
Function |
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Olga Endrich |
Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Medical Directorate |
Head of Health Information Management, Insel Data Science Center |
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Jean Louis Raisaro |
Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) |
Head of the Clinical Data Science Group at the CHUV Biomedical Data Science Center |
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Oksana Riba Grognuz |
The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) |
Head of ORD Engagement & Services |
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Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac |
Hopitaux Universitaires Geneve (HUG) |
Semantic group lead, medical information sciences division, diagnostic department |
|
Luregn Schlapbach Tribolet |
University Children’s Hospital Zürich (KiSpi) |
Head of Department (Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology), Swiss National Sepsis Programm Lead |
|
Thierry Bossy |
Tune Insight SA |
ML engineer |
Data Partners
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Data Source Name |
Organisation |
Data Type |
# Patients |
Link* |
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INFRA (Infection Radar) Dataset |
Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (Insel) |
CDM v5.4: patient cases, diagnosis, procedures, vitals, medication, scores, lab |
726’000 |
|
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ACROSS Consortium |
Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) |
CDM v5.4: patient cases, diagnosis, procedures, vitals, medication, scores, lab |
In progress |
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CARESCORE DigK UniBE |
Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (Insel) |
In progress |
In progress |