Developing innovative procedures for obtaining informed consent: Three solutions underway

Abstract

The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), a national initiative funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), was designed to promote the development of personalised medicine and personalised health in Switzerland. The SPHN aims to develop infrastructure projects that will make health-related data interoperable and shareable at the national level. Accordingly, certain projects related to informed consent (IC) were funded and are described in this article: the Electronic General Consent (e-GC), the Citizen Centered Consent: Shared, Transparent and Dynamic (the so-called C3-STuDY), and the proactive management tool of consent for research (in French so-called “Gestion Proactive des Consentements de Recherche”, GPCR).