Millennial's in Health Care

     I had the opportunity to attend the Northern New England Association of Health Care executives this weekend in Ogunquit, Maine. This conference took place at the Cliff House and I was fortunate to be surrounded by many intelligent and upper level health care executives such as CEO's, CNO's, COO's and more. The amount of knowledge in the room was incredible. One man, however, really stuck out to me and all the things he had to say were important in my eyes.

    Josh Luke is a well developed and experienced health care futurist and has had some of the best opportunities in the game. Josh has a lot of strong beliefs in health care and how to improve healthcare as a whole. Much of what he said came back to Millennials and how we do things as a generation. He said " When I ask baby boomers to jump, they say how high, but when I ask millenials to jump, they say why?". We as millennials will always ask why and that is how we think. Why would we do something? Why would it help us, hurt us, improve us? We want to know why. We constantly ask questions and we want an explanation for most things. I think that this is important because we all think this way and function this way. We do and will think this way in our future healthcare jobs as well. I think many of our "why's?" have led to new techniques, discoveries, and advances in health care and they will continue to do so. Josh then proceeded to say that "there is nothing wrong with the way the millennials think but it is different and we need to learn and adjust to it because they are going to be running our health care system soon". Josh Luke made so many great points about fixing the bad, fixing the problems, and working to improve. It is essential that current healthcare professionals and millennials work together to advance health care and understand one another's mindset. We use technology in everything we do, for example every hospital is implementing EMR's if they haven't already. A millennials train of thought and technological skills are already being seen throughout the healthcare world. As millennials trickle into health care systems and spread their "why's" and technology knowledge things will continue to change. Adjusting current views and working the two generations into one another is key for success in running any healthcare system. Millennials have a different way of thinking that has the potential to improve healthcare systems as we face the challenge of continuous change in healthcare.