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Park hopes DocDoc can replace the anecdotal evidence that most patients rely on. “I hear too many stories of how patients choose doctors who have lots of gray hair or [based on] the title the doctor has, or because the hospital lobby is very fancy, the marble floors are very expensive, and so it must be a very well-run place. So these are assumptions in the absence of data.” Park also highlights that the need to meet the gap between patient and doctor has never been more urgent. According to the United Nations World Population Prospects, there are six times more millennials in Asia than in the US and Europe combined. As true digital natives born between 1980 and 1994, the generation is currently the most underinsured age group. “While this generation expects instant, personalised services, industry data suggests that they are not receiving this from their insurers,” writes Park in a recent Medium post. Sirucek thinks the entire system is “right out of the polyester suits and big Cadillac era of the 1970’s”. “We find millennials get really annoyed with the typical insurance workflow. I got to meet this person, then this person’s got to talk to me, and I don’t want to talk to them. Then they hand me a bunch of papers; I don’t like paper. Where do I even find a fax machine? They don’t take a PDF.”

