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Digital Natives Push for Personalized Healthcare Technology

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-I-get-that-on-my-ipad? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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."

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  • (Score: 1) by Knowledge Troll on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:46PM

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:46PM (#263696) Homepage Journal

    Millennials have no fucking clue about technology beyond Facebook and Twitter.

    Personally I hope that it is because millennials have to be young at this moment by definition. I fear though that in 10 years they will be just as incompetent with technology as they are now.

  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday November 16 2015, @01:47AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday November 16 2015, @01:47AM (#263821)

    I fear though that in 10 years they will be just as incompetent with technology as they are now.

    And they will be, and according to the stupid clickbait article they'll also be telling their Doctors what's best, despite knowing nothing.

    So lots of them will be dead from treatable diseases.

    Except they won't because the article's crap.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2015, @05:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2015, @05:07PM (#264010)

      No, their parents will be telling the doctors what the best treatment for their kids are. We're going to need another 20 to 30 years before these parents start dying off or becoming invalid in large enough numbers that these "digital natives" will finally be on their own.