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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:40PM
Is that really fair? The vast majority of people alive today have no fucking clue. What else is there, beyond Facebook, Twitter, and for the really sophisticated, their bank accounts? That applies to 66 year old people, as well as 6 year old people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:05PM
Is that really fair? The vast majority of people alive today have no fucking clue. [...] That applies to 66 year old people, as well as 6 year old people.
That's exactly why calling these kids 'digital natives' is dumb. What makes them different?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:12PM
They've spent their lives staring at LCD and LED screens, instead of CRT?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @07:45PM
Whereas I have been spending my life seeking to understand what's behind that pretty LCD screen. When I was five, I scared my parents by programming the VCR (they thought I was going to "break the VCR"). I would take apart radios to look inside and see what makes it run; to my amazement, it wasn't some "magical box that does something", but an assembly of circuit boards populated with various beige insect-abdomen-looking things (resistors), tiny-beer-can looking things (capacitors), and little black caterpillar things (DIP-package integrated circuits). By the time I was able to get my own PC (that my parents weren't afraid that "I would break"), I wanted to open the case, look inside, and when I finally got a chance to add components, I started to add things on, upgrade memory, and so on. I learned a lot more about electronics, logic circuits, computer architecture, and so on in college. I never stopped digging deeper; a year ago, my interest in electronic synth music got me interested in synthesizers, at which point I started buying a few synths, and making songs with friends.
As a result, I've used a number of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X; at one point I was tinkering with Solaris, but thanks to Oracle it's now impractical to even try using, and I wouldn't want to be in a shop that uses it these days). I've seen assembly programming in Motorola 68HC11 and x86, and spent time programming in C, Perl, Python, Arduino, and some other weird languages (but I'm less of a programmer, and far more of a tinkerer, tester, hot-rodder).
So if these unquestioning, custom-made-for-mass-market consumer drones are "digital natives", what should I call myself? I don't want to confine it to "digital", because I do work with analog electronics. Either way, I feel that I'm far more versed in technology than these so-called "digital natives", and I'm in control of technology (for the most part), instead of being controlled BY it (and by the marketing departments of the companies that want to squeeze tons of money out of these so-called "digital natives").
The whole "millennial", "generation Y" and "digital native" ideas are purely marketing constructs, and I feel insulted every time these companies try to squeeze an entire generation into that identity. There's no honor behind it, as there was in "The Greatest Generation", who had to live through the Great Depression and World War II. I feel far more tied to the ideals of that generation than to the false trash that is being attached to "Generation Y".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @08:09PM
I learned a lot more about electronics, logic circuits, computer architecture, and so on in college.
You could've done so without college. You appeared to have motivation. What is wrong with people and this defeatist attitude?