Tech Alone Can't Solve the Opioid Crisis

Published: Dec. 22, 2017, 7:59 a.m.

As a fourth year medical student at Yale, Matthew Erlendson says he had to think long and hard about whether to participate in a recent hackathon at the Department of Health and Human services. The two-day event seemed like an innovative way to confront the opioid crisis, which kills more than 90 people in the US every day.