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SPHN: Clinical data from 800’000 patients unlocked

After eight years of coordinated effort, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) released the metadata of a uniquely rich national clinical dataset, spanning more than 800’000 patients and billions of semantically harmonized data points across diagnoses, procedures, labs, medications, vital signs, and more. Researchers can now easily discover what data exists in Switzerland and how to access it. 

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    Three new members elected to the SAMS Executive Board

    At its meeting on 12 November, the SAMS Senate elected three new members to the Executive Board: Prof. Klazine Van der Horst (Public Health), Prof. Stefano Bassetti (Internal Medicine) and Prof. Sebastian Jessberger (Neuroscience). The elections were prompted by the announced resignation of Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch as of 31 December 2026 and the forthcoming end of Prof. Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer’s term of office on 30 June 2027.

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    Prompt engineering: How SMEs can achieve more with better prompts

    Generative AI can assist businesses with a wide range of tasks. But how can better results be achieved with the right instructions? Prompt engineering helps professionals to use AI in a targeted way, even without any programming knowledge. This skill becomes particularly valuable when companies share and further develop tried-and-tested prompts, whilst also taking sustainability into account.
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    Subscribe for the Learning Group of the MOOC on transdisciplinary research

    Registration is now open for the next free, guided Learning Group of the online course «Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges» (td-MOOC).

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