International Consortium for Personalized Medicine: An International Survey about the Future of Personalized Medicine

<b>Aim:</b> The ICPerMed, international initiative promoting personalized medicine, has realized a survey among a group of experts, to define a common vision for the deployment of personalized medicine across healthcare systems until 2030. <b>Materials & methods:</b> ICPerMed defined five perspectives (p.4) and addressed an online questionnaire to 97 international experts to collect their views. <b>Results:</b> Seventy (72%) of the 97 experts effectively answered the survey from which 69 answers were exploitable. Respondents from a variety of international profiles approved the five proposed perspectives and reported required actions and best practices. <b>Conclusion:</b> There is a large consensus among experts directly involved in shaping international strategies and policies, calling for voluntarist public policies, new IT platforms enabling data-driven approaches, large-scale educational programs and new financing models.