Hi Everyone,

This is the second notice of invitation to the IEEE TMC (formerly Eng Management
Society) meeting for April. It features Peter Hartzman, PhD on the Preventing
Failure in Health Care IT Projects. Once again, we have a new "budget conscious"
meeting price. Please join us.

See you there.

Carl Angotti
Angotti Product Development
www.angotti.com
408-739-5046
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Friends of IEEE TMC Silicon Valley Chapter
Date: Thursday, April 2nd (Light $10 Dinner Meeting)
Topic: Preventing Failure in Health Care IT Projects
Speaker: Peter Hartzman, PhD, Associate of TAP-A-PM

Agenda:
Pre-dinner – 6:30pm Guided Networking
Dinner - 7:15pm (sandwiches and sodas)
After-Dinner Presentation - 7:45pm - see below abstract
Adjourn – 9:00pm

Place: Ramada Inn, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale – Directions: going north, exit
Lawrence Expressway east onto Bridgewood Way, just north (bay side) of the
highway 101 interchange, and then take an immediate right onto Wildwood; going
south (from hiway 237) exit Lawrence Expy with a left onto Sandia and
immediately turn right onto Blazingwood and go south to Bridgewood and jog to
the right and a left onto Wildwood.
Reservations: through Website: http://www.ieee-scv-ems.org

Light Dinner: $10 (IEEE member), $13 (non member) - (Cash or check at the door;
add $3 without reservation). This month we're experimenting with a low cost
snack dinner – sandwiches, chips and sodas. We're hoping the low cost will
bring out more of our management friends. Vote your interest in this venue by
your presence.
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Preventing Failure in Health Care IT Projects

We will discuss issues that occur in Health Care IT projects that put them in
extreme danger of failure. Peter Hartzman has been involved in many large and
complex IT Health Care IT projects and will share his experiences with us. This
is going to be a hot topic during the economic recovery as hospitals and health
care groups shift to computer based information system in large numbers.

Peter Hartzman started his career building real-time monitoring systems for JPL
(Jet Propulsion Labs) where Launch windows don?t allow for missed deliverables.
Since then, Peter has worked in insurance, transportation, telecommunications,
biotechnology, and healthcare. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the New
York University.

Peter is a senior information technology manager with accomplishments in product
and application development, operations, and marketing and sales support. He has
run successful software development groups for years.

At NetForce, Inc. he conceived of, designed, and marketed a completely
distributed adverse event reporting system for clinical trials which was
acquired by Oracle. He has also designed and implemented a web-based security
system to address HIPAA and support a single sign-on intranet for a highly
integrated dialysis services company with 1200 clinics and 32,000 users.

As a consultant he has successfully delivered multi-million dollar systems
integration projects in the transportation and telecomm industries. Peter is
currently researching web-based practice management systems for healthcare.

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Networking – Experiences with using, or creating, large Databases
Attendees are encouraged to think about the night's theme – stories of Database
Projects that worked, and didn't work or areas related to managing complex
projects. Facilitation will be by one of our TMC officers. In the process get
to know fellow meeting attendees.
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(click on "sign up" and select between meat or vegetarian entrees)
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