The Department of Health and Human Services has announced the winners of its first-ever Opioid Code-a-Thon to help harness data into solutions to combat the nation’s epidemic of drug overdoses.
The code-a-thon took place on December 6 and 7 at HHS headquarters in Washington, where more than 300 coders and 50 teams competed for more than 24 hours, with nine teams selected for the final judging round. The teams used data—some of it released for the first time—to analyze trends and patterns in order to propose data-driven solutions.
