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. 2019 Oct 21;22(3-4):77–101. doi: 10.1159/000503296

Table 6.

Bottlenecks in the data sharing and opportunities for EU action

Stakeholders Barriers EU-level opportunities
Policymakers
  • - Lack of oversight of the different insurance and reimbursement schemes

  • - Uncertainty about the governance and responsibilities in the regulation of personalised medicine and testing

  • - Regularly investigate the landscape and provide best practices at the EU level

  • - Expand the influence and the facilitating and mediating role of EU institutions in the governance and implementation of personalised medicine strategies


Industry
  • - Uncertainty in the different pricing and reimbursement of new and innovative technologies

  • - Regulatory barriers to the use of data

  • - Create an EU-wide platform where industry and national governments can meet and discuss pricing and reimbursement of personalised medicine approaches

  • - EU-wide multi-stakeholder policy analysis for all policies that deal with data and that can influence research (both private and public)


Patients and general public
  • - Lack of information on ways to participate in genomic and personalised medicine research

  • - Lack of awareness on cross-border opportunities

  • - Creation of an EU-wide platform designed to share information about genomic research in different member states

  • - Raise awareness about research participation and sensitise primary care physicians on the subject


Healthcare professionals, physicians, and researchers
  • - Lacking infrastructure and opportunities for research

  • - Promote the topics related to personalised medicine through grants and research funding allowing researchers to access state-of-the-art equipment