Table 9.

Rating aspects indicating the readiness of member states to take up personalised healthcare

Education and awareness	- Are awareness programmes in place to raise awareness about the benefits of personalised healthcare? - Are the basic principles of personalised healthcare being taught in medical/nursing schools and in universities that are involved in the training of healthcare professionals? - Are there information and contact points available in order to provide people with information about personalised healthcare?
Practice	- Are primary care physicians trained in delivering the basic components of personalised healthcare? - Are specialist doctors steadily informed with the latest developments in the fields of molecular diagnostics? - Is the data collected from patients (genomic, sequencing, etc.) stored on a database and made available for research use?
Regulations	- Are frameworks in place to regulate the implementation of personalised healthcare at the national level? - Is there a set of ethical guidelines being applied regarding the use of personal and genomic data? - Are the interactions between the public and private actors in the field of personalised healthcare regulated, facilitated, and overseen by the responsible authorities?
Policy	- Are grants accessible to researchers to support research and infrastructure in the field of personalised healthcare? - Is there a mechanism of bargaining in place on pricing and reimbursement for innovative technologies in place? - Is there an oversight of the different regulatory roles and tasks related to the regulation of personalised healthcare components at the national level?