#26: Tying Things Together In Adolescent Health Care (with Paul Julius, Co-Founder and CEO at Thread Health)
Slice of Healthcare Team
Jan 18, 2023
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What you’ll get out of this episode
Listen in as host Tim Fitzpatrick chats with Paul Julius from Thread Health about adolescent care and how their parents play a role. Thread Health focuses on supporting the physical and mental health of teens while reducing friction between teens, doctors, and their parents. Paul and his team are focused on the stage of life where we make our first health care decisions, and they are leveraging their experience and their target populations' platforms of choice to do it.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- Why Thread Health focuses on teens and supporting the stage of newfound independence, often making health decisions on your own for the first time.
- How Thread Health thinks about managing the relationship between kids, guardians and doctors from tweens to twentysomethings.
- Why Thread health made the decision to leverage SMS and text-based interactions with teens. In this demographic, teens are very proficient in digital platforms, and this tends to make them more comfortable controlling their health and asking questions.
- Opportunities for health education in the teen and parent population, especially around common questions like acne, colds, nutrition and family histories.
- The role of Adolescent Health Specialists, how few there are across the United States, and how many there are at Thread Health.
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