Options for Realising and Financing Innovation in the German Healthcare System

Personalised healthcare is experiencing the same difficulties as other innovations when it is introduced to the different health systems of countries. However, the high treatment costs and the complicated evaluation of the added value compared to existing methods and procedures represent particularly great challenges for personalised medicine providers and healthcare systems. In the German health care system, a large number of mechanisms have been implemented, on the one hand, to enable the fundamental introduction of innovations and, on the other hand, to permit only those innovations for standard care that bring additional benefits to the respective patients.