Table 2.

Recommendations concerning infrastructure.

Recommendation	Concrete implications
Create a national data centre	create an institution or an organisation that is capable of coordinating and combining the requests for data access and data linkage for the healthcare and research sector.
Improve IT infrastructure and promote comparable IT language	invest on a IT infrastructure that allows an effective reuse of health data. Also, ensure that data from different datasets are compatible by promoting the use of standard nomenclatures and formats
Unique Patient Identifier	in a decentralised system like Switzerland, a unique identifier to link data concerning the same person from different sources should be enabled.