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Code-a-thon for opioid crisis delivers digital tools — and a hint of HHS culture change

The floor of the HHS code-a-thon on Dec. 7 as teams prepared to begin pitching their final ideas. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop) The Department of Health and Human Services’ opioid crisis code-a ...
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HHS code-a-thon on opioid crisis puts an emphasis on the human dimension

The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that there were 64,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year. That’s 140 per day, with 91 of those from opioids. The numbers are staggering, ...