INVESTIGATING THE NON-ADOPTION OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS IN PRIMARY CARE

The objective of this study was to investigate the underlying reasons behind primary care centers in the United States not implementing an Electronic Health Record system in spite of looming penalties under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. In order to do this, survey was developed and distributed among healthcare providers who have not yet implemented an EHR system at their practice. The questions for the survey were developed after conducting a literature review of the barriers to EHR implementation. In this review, six themes emerged: technical, cost, productivity, change process, privacy and time. These 6 categories served as the foundation for the survey which consisted of 30 questions. The results from the survey were analyzed using SPSS. From the analysis we see what the participants perceive as the most significant of barriers and also see that nurses and doctors are divided in their opinion of the EHRs, where the former perceive them as them as not being useful and the latter seem to think otherwise. Further research may be conducted on determining why this is so

Task-switching in agile transformation

With the automotive industry constantly changing and being subjected to more competition than ever, the automobile manufacturers are now changing their ways of working to stay competitive. One way of doing that is to go from the traditional way of working to work more agile. When working agile, the structure of the development teams has changed from being specialized to cross-functional. The introduction of the agile way of working in the automotive industry has its challenges and frequent task-switching is one of them. While the teams work in an increased number of projects in the agile way of working, they switch tasks frequently to cater to the new structure. While most of the task-switching is necessary for the agile way of working, there is unwanted task-switching that affects the development team members. This master’s thesis has been conducted at Volvo Cars, which recently completed its agile transformation, to identify factors that influence task-switching for the agile hardware development teams. In addition to this, the effects of these identified factors were investigated. The empirical strategy was focused on a case study, consisting of an exploratory survey and semi-structured interviews. The answers from the exploratory survey were used as basis for the interviews. The interviews were conducted with the development team members and the managerial side to capture both aspects of the research topic. Through systematic matching between the case study and literature on task-switching, the factors which influenced task-switching in agile hardware development teams were identified to be ‘interruptions’, ‘interdependencies’, ‘planning’, and ‘collaboration’. The factors have a beneficial or detrimental effect on the hardware development teams which influenced the organization’s ability to improve the agile way of working. The result showed that the types of factors did not change due to the agile transformation, but that the overall frequency seems to have increased. The study also shows that the factors have several effects on the development teams. Amongst others, it is shown to influence the amount of re-planning and quality, and increase the developer’s understanding of each other's work making it easier to support each other

STABILITY OF TREDECIC FUNCTIONAL EQUATION IN MATRIX NORMED SPACES

In this current work, we dene and nd the general solution of the tredecic functional equation. We also investigate and establish the generalized Ulam-Hyers stability of this functional equation in matrix normed spaces by using the xed point method

Stability on Quinquevigintic Functional Equation in Different Spaces

In this work, we determine the general solution of the quinquevigintic functional equation and also investigate its stability of this equation in the setting of matrix normed spaces and the framework of matrix non-Archimedean fuzzy normed spaces by using the fixed point method

Autonomous Land Vehicle

The demand for the autonomous land vehicle industry has been increasing tremendously, and continues to grow; nearly 30 million autonomous vehicles are expected to be sold by 2040.1 Through the Autonomous Lands Vehicle (ALV) VIP team, students develop both the hardware and software to help enhance knowledge and gain experience in vehicle autonomy. An automatic pilot has been built that can drive the vehicle in real time. The purpose of this pilot is to generate vehicle control commands that will direct the vehicle from the starting point to the finishing point, without hitting unforeseen obstacles. A remote controlled vehicle has been transformed into an autonomous vehicle by implementing appropriate steering logic based on incoming data from ultrasonic distance sensors. The Team has strategized that the use of the Raspberry Pi single board computer would be the best candidate to function as the brain of the project due to open source software and familiarity of use.The current steering logic has been refined through an obstacle course based testing in scenarios with low gradient surfaces.For future iterations of this project, implementation of object recognition via a Pi CAM can relay what the ALV is seeing and with the introduction of a GPS module the user can actively monitor the coordinates of the vehicle . In addition to this, the project could be improved with a wider variation of testing in less controlled environments. Reference: https://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/automotive/autonomous-vehicle-sales-surpass-33-million-annually-2040-enabling-new-aut