Personalized Health Basel
A joint project organization of the University of Basel and the University Hospitals of the Basel area, Personalized Health Basel (PHB) is working to shape the future of healthcare through health innovation, health data-driven research as well as clinical translation for the benefit of patients, research and society.
By harmonizing and streamline existing processes and pipelines, building new information technology (IT) infrastructures, and by forming local, national and international research collaborations as well as partnerships with the private sector, we aim to consolidate the Basel area as a hub of health innovation and health-data driven research excellence and a place where people benefit from personalized healthcare.
We identify the gaps and build the critical infrastructure to capture, share and analyse data and biospecimens across the various networks of clinicians and scientists. In this way, we enable translational, transdisciplinary and health data-driven research as well as clinical translation, biomedical development, breakthrough personalised treatments and improvements in disease prevention and medical practice. Together with translational research labs, we also optimize processes, platforms and data integration / interface so that innovative non-routine analytics and decision support with high potential impact in healthcare can be performed and refined up to the point of full integration in the clinical routine.
PHB activities are closely coordinated with our partners in Zurich within the Personalized Health Alliance Basel-Zurich and with national initiatives such as the Swiss Personalized Heath network (SPHN) and the complementary initiative from the ETH Domain Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT). In addition, PHB and University of Basel have taken a strong role in strategic initiatives in the field of personalized health and health-related data research also outside the Swiss national borders, with project collaborations within the upper Rhine region and beyond (Clinnova). Furthermore, we foster exchanges and collaborations/partnerships with the private sector in the Basel ecosystem.
PHB helps researchers, clinicians, R&D developers, data scientists and health authorities by providing IT/data engineering and integration, software development and IT solutions as well as coordinating the numerous excellent efforts and resources already in place to create innovation and excellence in the health sector.
Driving Healthcare Innovation: 6 Projects Selected to Improve Clinical Data Capture at USB
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At University Hospital Basel, we are committed to shaping the future of healthcare through meaningful innovation. In collaboration with DayOne – Healthcare Innovation, we launched a unique Open Innovation Challenge to address a critical goal:
💡 Improving clinical data capture for better healthcare outcomes
As part of the Digital Health Nation Innovation Booster, powered by Innosuisse, this initiative invited bold, interdisciplinary teams to propose solutions that simplify and standardize clinical data capture using openEHR. The aim: to enhance data quality, reduce system fragmentation, and streamline workflows across our institution.
🌟 Meet the Selected Projects
After an enthusiastic response and a competitive selection process, we are proud to introduce the six teams moving forward into the next stage of development:
- anamedi – Julian Kempf, Maks Kasprzyk (University of Basel)
- Health Capture – Michaël Laurac (Berner Fachhochschule BFH)
- Lifecare openEHR clinical applications – Sofia Kauppila, Kaisa Kauppinen (Tietoevry)
- Movement@HealthCore – Chris Easthope Awai (cereneo)
- Nutrition data – Dr. Robert Schreiber (ALPINA+SANA)
- RADICAL – Norbert Farkas (DryLabz)
“The death of data sharing? A modern privacy technology survival kit”
We are thrilled to announce the next workshop of the Personalized Health Series, “The death of data sharing? A modern privacy technology survival kit”, which will take place on 15 of May 2025 at the Roche Campus, in Basel. The workshop will explore innovative technologies for sharing sensitive health data while preserving privacy, such as federated learning, synthetic data, and swarm learning.
PHB is, this time, partnering with Roche to bring you an exciting new event where academics and industry representatives will have the opportunity to discuss the latest results and real use cases, in the framework of academia-industry partnerships. The event wants to offer the chance to showcase ongoing projects and act as a catalyst for collaborations in this realm.
Date: 15 May 2025
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Venue: Roche Campus, Grenzacherstrasse, Basel
General Format:
• Keynote presentations with a high-level overview of data sharing systems, and use cases for synthetic data and federated learning
• Short pitch talks on relevant projects
• Networking Apéro
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register via this Google Form, and feel free to share this invitation with interested colleagues in academia and industry.
Contact: Raffaello Ferone, PhD
5th Clinic Meets Data Science Symposium
PHB is hosting this year the 5th Clinic Meets Data Science Symposium! Don't miss it!
The symposium will showcase current developments in clinical data science, highlight state-of-the-art and future applications and tools and discuss possibilities and opportunities that data science offers for the clinical daily routine.
Date: 28 August 2025
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Venue: Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel
Program and registration on the 5th Clinic Meets Data Science Symposium webpage!
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🎉 PHB is thrilled to announce the winner of the PHB Translational Award 2025! 🎉
The PHB Translational Award seeks proposals for projects that demonstrate a strong potential to significantly impact clinical practices or patient outcomes. We received numerous outstanding and innovative proposals, and we would like to sincerely thank all applicants for their interest and the time invested in preparing their submissions. While we were only able to fund one project this year, the high level of engagement has truly inspired us—and we are excited to announce that we plan to launch another call next year, so stay tuned!
👏 We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Benjamin Thiele, Consultant in Medical Oncology! 👏
The award will support part of Dr. Thiele’s position over a 12-month period starting June 1, 2025, enabling him to dedicate time away from clinical duties to focus on this innovative project:
🧭 COMPASS: Clinical Oncology Milestones – Patient Journey Automation and Synthesis System
More information about the project can be found on the PHB Translational Award page.
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Bram Stieltjes, MD PhD
Head of Department Research and Analysis Services, University Hospital Basel
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Cristina Golfieri, PhD
PHB Manager
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Raffaello Ferone, PhD
PHB Industry Partnership Manager
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Siri Leemann, PhD
Project Manager PH Eucor
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Maren Diepenbruck, PHD
PHB Synthetic Data Project Manager
