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If the healthcare ecosystem wants to keep up with the millennials and the sheer numbers in which this generation is entering the workforce and economy, it is going to have to adopt an agile and evolving approach to technologies like AI, ML, RPA, among other digital technologies.

Over the last few years, as more and more millennials – or the generation born between 1981 and 1996 – have joined the workforce and the economy, they have turned everything on its head. Having grown up on a healthy dose of internet, technology, and personalization, their expectations of traditional systems, processes, delivery models are dramatically different from previous generations.

For millennials, transparency, tangible outcomes, seamless experiences, and convenience are non-negotiable – these are things they have experienced all their lives and continue to demand it from traditional industries as well, including healthcare. Much has been written about millennial consumers and their expectations changing and more often than not enhancing healthcare processes, systems, efficiency, transparency, data centricity and eventually, care outcomes. But millennial physicians too have entered the healthcare workforce over the last few years, and their expectations too are making a significant impact on the sector. Let’s see how.

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Abhinav Shashank is the cofounder and CEO at Innovaccer Inc. Abhinav has led the San Francisco-based healthcare technology company since its inception in 2014. Under his supervision, Innovaccer developed its proprietary data activation platform.