The Connecticut Mirror

Accountability for algorithms: Moving CT’s government to transparency

In 2008, Tammy Dobbs, a woman with cerebral palsy, moved to Arkansas. She applied to the state to receive help from a caretaker, and after an assessment, Dobbs was allotted the maximum 56 hours of ...
The Connecticut Mirror

Governments — including Connecticut’s — continue using algorithms in the dark

Government agencies are increasingly relying upon computer programs known as algorithms to make life-altering decisions about their citizens, and these decisions could even become fatal. David ...
Medscape

Motion-Correction Algorithm Ups Cardiac CT Image Quality

SAN DIEGO, CA — A novel algorithm shows promise in overcoming a major drawback of coronary computed-tomography angiography (CCTA)—artifacts caused by coronary motion in patients with a rapid or ...
Science Daily

Algorithm reduces use of CT scans when diagnosing children with appendicitis

Implementation of an algorithm aimed to diagnose pediatric patients with suspected appendicitis reduces the utilization of computed tomography scans, without affecting diagnostic accuracy, researchers ...
Government Technology

Connecticut Committee Issues Report on Implications of Algorithms

(TNS) — The Connecticut Special Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Tuesday released a report on “The Civil Rights Implications of Algorithms,” a work that found government ...