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rmmcgr 9/12/2007 4:13 AM PST
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  Hi,

Saw an interesting lecture the other day on scanned medical records.

Obviously to manage scanned medical records like this a very robust
document management system is required.

Is sharepoint, obvioulsy with what ever required developments/
customisations, cabable of handeling a 1,000,000 odd libraries (1
library = 1 patient) of possibly hundreds, if not thousands, of
documents? Each document, either a PDF or a type of image file, being
anywhere from 50 kb to 10 MB in size.

Is this in the relm of what sharepoint can do?

Thanks,
Richard

 
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SSA  9/12/2007 6:39 AM PST
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  Hi,

Yes, if rules and standards are followed, SharePoint can do this. I have
seen several companies doing the same. Architecture is important here. If the
architecture is good and capacity planning has been done, then managing large
document management systems in SharePoint is possible.

Reference:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/301ed832-95da-4251-b266-7be6288f7ea01033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9ccfb27f-ecba-4b7d-b9a0-88fac71478a31033.mspx
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/031b0634-bf99-4c23-8ebf-9d58b6a8e6ce1033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6a13cd9f-4b44-40d6-85aa-c70a8e5c34fe1033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9f3cfe3f-01b5-406e-8615-04735ae422861033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/0a7b2b45-f633-46d2-a4fd-78691d4b8f631033.mspx?mfr=true

SSA
"rmmcgr" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Saw an interesting lecture the other day on scanned medical records.
>
> Obviously to manage scanned medical records like this a very robust
> document management system is required.
>
> Is sharepoint, obvioulsy with what ever required developments/
> customisations, cabable of handeling a 1,000,000 odd libraries (1
> library = 1 patient) of possibly hundreds, if not thousands, of
> documents? Each document, either a PDF or a type of image file, being
> anywhere from 50 kb to 10 MB in size.
>
> Is this in the relm of what sharepoint can do?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
 
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Faisal Akhtar 9/12/2007 6:53 AM PST
   
  On Sep 12, 7:10 am, rmmcgr <richard.mcgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Saw an interesting lecture the other day on scanned medical records.
>
> Obviously to manage scanned medical records like this a very robust
> document management system is required.
>
> Is sharepoint, obvioulsy with what ever required developments/
> customisations, cabable of handeling a 1,000,000 odd libraries (1
> library = 1 patient) of possibly hundreds, if not thousands, of
> documents? Each document, either a PDF or a type of image file, being
> anywhere from 50 kb to 10 MB in size.
>
> Is this in the relm of what sharepoint can do?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard

Hmm that's a one Petabyte data store. Needs some really powerful
servers and some kick ass DBAs but I don't see why that is impossible.
There are plenty of petabyte data stores accross the world. I don't
know of a SharePoint implementation that large though.

Faisal Akhtar
SharePoint Analyst/Architect
http://sharefort.blogspot.com

 
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