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Sustainability of personalised medicine

Abstract

Per aconseguir l’equilibri econòmic, hi ha una equació molt bàsica que diu que els ingressos han de superar les despeses.Tot i que la crisi financera ha fet que la despesa en sanitat hagi caigut dràsticament des de l’any 2010, el consum públic dels recursos d’assistència sanitària continua creixent. L’única manera d’aconseguir l’equilibri és que la despesa en nous recursos quedi compensada per guanys futurs. Pot satisfer la medicina personalitzada aquesta necessitat? De moment, hi ha poques evidències que facin pensar que la medicina personalitzada reduirà els costos sanitaris pel fet de reduir els costos dels medicaments. En un escenari de medicina personalitzada per als propers anys, els ingressos seran, en el millor dels casos, neutres, mentre que les despeses per al diagnòstic i la prevenció augmentaran i el tractament tindrà, com a molt, un efecte neutral.Paraules clau: medicina personalitzada ∙ sostenibilitat ∙ farmacogenètica ∙ medicaments orfes ∙ mecanismes de fixaciódels preus dels medicamentsTo achieve sustainability, there is a very basic equation that says that income has to be equal to or greater than expenditure. Despite the financial crisis, that lead expenditure in healthcare to fall sharply since 2010, consumption of healthcare resources continues to grow. The only way to achieve equilibrium is for expenditure on new resources to be balanced by future gains. But can personalised medicine meet this need? At the moment, there is little reason to think that personalised medicine will reduce healthcare costs by reducing drug costs. In a personalised medicine scenario, incomewill, at best, most likely be neutral in the coming years whereas expenditures for diagnostics and prevention will increase and treatment will, at best, have a neutral effect.Keywords: personalised medicine ∙ sustainability ∙ pharmacogenetics ∙ orphan drugs ∙ drug pricing mechanism

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This paper was published in Hemeroteca Cientifica Catalana.

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