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By David Rubinstein
September 16, 2009 —  When there’s a natural disaster, be it an earthquake, tsunami or outbreak of virus, there is an urgent need to interact with millions of people to collect data, sort it, make it retrievable, and get it out to a response team, which might also be a large number of people.

As the world braces for the upcoming flu season and a possible outbreak of H1N1 virus, a company called GoScan is working with U.S. government agencies to help ensure that health documents get into the hands of people working to fight the spread of the virus. GoScan’s technology enables doctors and hospitals to scan PDF forms with information such as a person’s date of birth, location, gender, allergies and other medical conditions to a central repository. The form processing software generates XML metadata that then can be searched via SharePoint—“Show me all men allergic to eggs living in Hollywood”—and a medical response can be coordinated, such as whether the person can take a preventative vaccine or other antiviral medications.

“States want to make decisions quickly,” said Mike Stuhley, CEO of GoScan. “They don’t want to appear like another Hurricane Katrina response.”

GoScan will be exhibiting at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference next month in Las Vegas…

Spoke to a lot of SharePoint users and trainers at SharePoint Saturday in New York City this weekend. Among the more popular sessions were Steven Fowler’s class on “Large-scale SharePoint development,” in which he said before any programming occurs, developers need to change the way they think about software.

I had heard this while reporting on a piece for SD Times on SharePoint development, as Nintex’s Mike Fitzmaurice, a part of the early SharePoint team at Microsoft, said, “If you’re developing for SharePoint, it’s best not to think of one solution at a time. Developers should be thinking of building reusable parts.”

As to what people are working on, consultant Paul Swider said he’s seeing a lot action in the area of branding external websites.

We’d like to know… What SharePoint development projects are you working on? Will you share your stories of success and/or failure for others to go to school on?

Send them to me at drubinstein@bzmedia.com

— David


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