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

Name	Organisation	Function
Olga Endrich Karen Triep Guido Beldi Hugo Guillen Ramirez Thurnheer Zürcher, Maria Christine	Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Medical Directorate University of Bern	Head of Health Information Management, Insel Data Science Center Dep. Head of Health Information Management Chef Surgeon Senior Data Scientist Medical Senior Lecturer, Privat-Docent, Senior Registrar
Jean Louis Raisaro Solange Zoergiebel Sylvain Meylan Jeremie Despraz Le Bosse Gautier	Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)	Head of the Clinical Data Science Group at the CHUV Biomedical Data Science Center Head IT Data Science & Management Medical Senior Lecturer, Privat-Docent, Senior Registrar Principal Data Scientist
Oksana Riba Grognuz Federico Amato Laure Vancauwenberghe Stefan Milosavljevic Almut Lütge Raphaël Matusiak Luana Alessandra Martelli	The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)	Head of ORD Engagement & Services Principal Data Scientist Senior Biomedical Data Engineer Senior Biomedical Data Engineer Biomedical Data Engineer Senior Data Scientist Security Expert
Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac	Hopitaux Universitaires Geneve (HUG)	Semantic group lead, medical information sciences division, diagnostic department
Luregn Schlapbach Tribolet Nora Lüthi Manuel Schweighofer	University Children’s Hospital Zürich (KiSpi)	Head of Department (Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology), Swiss National Sepsis Programm Lead Medical Sepsis Programm Manager Biomedical Data Engineer
Thierry Bossy Florimond Houssiau Manon Michel Olivier Siegenthaler Juan R. Troncoso	Tune Insight SA	ML engineer Privacy engineer Product manager Head of AI CEO

Data Partners

Data Source Name	Organisation	Data Type	# Patients	Link*
INFRA (Infection Radar) Dataset	Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (Insel)	CDM v5.4: patient cases, diagnosis, procedures, vitals, medication, scores, lab	726’000	INFRA: INFection RAdar
ACROSS Consortium	Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (Insel) University Children’s Hospital Zürich (KiSpi)	CDM v5.4: patient cases, diagnosis, procedures, vitals, medication, scores, lab	In progress	ACROSS
CARESCORE DigK UniBE	Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (Insel) Centre hospitalier universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)	In progress	In progress	Research Project Digitalisation Commission (DigK)