Founder of @BicycleHealth that provides virtual care for Opioid Use Disorder. Ex Co-Founder of Pulse News, now the @LinkedInNews. @Stanford and @IITBombay grad.
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The @DEAHQ wants people to go through an uncessary physical to get opioid addiction treatment. I scheduled a physical to see what the fuss is about. A 🧵
Ankit Gupta retweeted
10/10 FOMO only watching from afar as ~500 students hunker into the weekend for the @prodigaltech AI hackathon with @wncc_iitb at @iitbombay 🤓
What do we need people with opioid use disorder to be screened for conditions like diabetes and hypertension, and not folks with other conditions? We are we so attached to the stigmatization of addiction?
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Telemedicine Jeopardy:
A: @DEAHQ says drug overdose is #1 cause of death for Americans age 18-45.
Q: Then why throttle access to lifesaving buprenorphine by requiring an arbitrary in-person exam?
#ATA23 #telemedicine #telehealth #digitalhealth #telemednow #hcldr
#DYK according to the CDC, the leading cause of death for people ages 18–45 in the US is drug poisoning & overdose? Join DEA’s efforts to remember the lives lost from fentanyl poisoning by submitting a photo of a loved one lost to fentanyl #JustKNOW
dea.gov/FentanylAwareness
ALT Graphic: Faces of Fentanyl DEA.gov/FentanylAwareness #JustKNOW
Moment of truth
I told the doctor about @BicycleHealth And about the DEA ruling.
Asked her if I was a person who had started OUD treatment and wanted a referral for continuing telemedicine care, what would she do?
She basically said I'll do what my hospital tells me to do 🤦🏼♂️
Fantastic analysis by @Lacktman. We need to share our concerns with the administration if we have a chance of maintaining robust tele-oud access post PHE.
What a cool way to teach financial literacy! via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/12/24/busin…
One of the solutions @athenahealth suggests for errors that arise in their UI due to data-integrity conflicts
... Compensate for internet speed by taking slower actions to make sure the system is registering their actions (slower clicking) ...
Honored to be included on @Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list this year! Especially amongst all the amazing trailblazers shaping the healthcare industry.
A well-deserved recognition of our incredible team at @BicycleHealth and their dedication to the care of patients with OUD.
7) The No. 1 priority in addressing the opioid crisis in America is improving access to treatment and recovery services.
Ankit Gupta (@gankit)’s Bicycle Health aims to fill that gap with specialized telehealth services for opioid use disorder. bit.ly/3Gg29n1
ALT “Ankit Gupta” section of 40/40 list and photo of Ankit Gupta.
.. for most healthcare, you’d hop on your phone, just like we do today for 90% of personal finance or commerce (a new norm which itself may have seemed like science fiction twenty years ago) ..
Key assumption in this article that likely isn't true a16z.com/2022/11/11/the-bigg…
