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Millennials and younger generations expect to use their own technologies and biological data to help doctors deliver more personal care.
Caring for a rapidly ageing population is challenging. Experts working to revitalize healthcare for the 21 century are tackling this challenge by shifting from a one-size-fits-all to a more personalized healthcare approach, one that is heavily influenced by how young people use technology.
To combat skyrocketing healthcare costs for an American population of 326 million people spanning six generations, experts are turning to bioscience and new technologies as well as to young, tech-savvy digital natives who are already nudging healthcare into the Internet age.
"We're already seeing that millennials and younger generations won't be the same kinds of patients as their parents," said Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and general manager of Intel's Health and Life Sciences.
"These 18-to-34 year olds already expect to have data and tools to help them manage their health just like they do for everything else in their lives."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:38PM
Welcome to third world health-care. Where the "doctor" is an expert because he only sees one type of case sitting in an "air traffic" control room. The hands on will be some muchlesser person or even arobot.
This what has on my local PBS talking about eastern Kentucky health serbives model and "best practices". Tech has moved off shores. accounting and lawyer are following after helping "high-cost" tech to go, now the medical profession. Middle class is gone, now upper-middle is going.
Thank you
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:06PM
now the medical profession
Radiology is already gone, your xrays or WTF will be interpreted by some dude in India.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:31PM
That's robophobic.