The SPHN Schema Forge – transform healthcare semantics from human-readable to machine-readable by leveraging semantic web technologies

Scientific Paper: Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2025; 16:9

Vasundra Touré, Deepak Unni, Philip Krauss, Abdelhamid Abdelwahed, Jascha Buchhorn, Leon Hinderling, Thomas R. Geiger & Sabine Österle 

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Appleton, O., Kapoor, S., Maffioletti, S., Schomo, G., Wiegand, A., Georgakopoulou, S., Lakshmanan Thirunavukkarasu, S., Dessimoz, C., Fabbretti, R., Geiger, T., Rinn, B., & Sengstag, T. (2024). Versatile Trusted Research Environments: An approach for Switzerland (1.02). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14012894

Touré, V., Krauss, P., Gnodtke, K., Buchhorn, J., Unni, D., Horki, P., Raisaro, J.L., Kalt, K., Teixeira, D., Crameri, K. and Österle, S. (2023). FAIRification of health-related data using semantic web technologies in the Swiss Personalized Health Network. Scientific Data, 10(1), p.127 (doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02028-y)

Coman Schmid D, Crameri K, Oesterle S, Rinn B, Sengstag T, Stockinger H; BioMedIT Network team. SPHN - The BioMedIT Network: A Secure IT Platform for Research with Sensitive Human Data. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16;270:1170-1174. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200348. PMID: 32570566.

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Gaudet-Blavignac C, Raisaro J, Touré V, Österle S, Crameri K, Lovis C; A National, Semantic-Driven, Three-Pillar Strategy to Enable Health Data Secondary Usage Interoperability for Research Within the Swiss Personalized Health Network: Methodological Study. JMIR Med Inform. 2021 9(6):e27591. doi: 10.2196/27591

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