“New attempts to address the crisis will only be more effective - and more likely to be funded - if they’re built with respect for real human experience," he told me. The conversation about opioids hasn’t always been inclusive, Chu says, and important reforms have failed to earn the buy-in of some patient populations and prescribing physicians. Invited by Department of Health and Human Services CTO Bruce Greenstein, the Stanford team assembled and interviewed the stakeholders, and will mentor them as they share their perspectives throughout the course of the code-a-thon. The participation of recovering addicts, caregivers, chronic pain patients, prescribing clinicians, first responders, payers and more is thanks to an effort led by Stanford anesthesiologist Larry Chu, MD, MS, executive director of Stanford Medicine X.
But they’ll also have another powerful tool at their disposal: immediate access to real people who have been touched by the crisis of opioid misuse and abuse. Teams will be given access to more than 20 state, federal and private-sector data sets on prescribing, educational outcomes, unemployment, mortgages, emergency response and more. Their challenge: Do what they can in 24 hours to help the federal government better understand the nature of the opioid epidemic, and identify ways we might begin to ease it. This week programmers from across the country will convene in Washington, D.C., to take part in a code-a-thon hosted by the U.S.
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