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VETERINARY INFORMATICS
NetVet, an online
veterinary medicine resource, defines veterinary informatics as “the discipline
concerned with the application of information science, engineering and computer
technology to support veterinary teaching, research and practice." 1
Information Technology applications are now becoming
commonplace in veterinary practices. 2 Practices
are moving towards becoming paperless as they implement electronic medical
records (EMRs) for their patients. 3
EMRs provide veterinaries with the ability to provide standardized clinical
patient records and reports and the opportunity for providing their clients
with continuous care education. Some EMRs come with a graphical module that
provides charts that clients can take home and see the improvement in the
weight of their pets due to treatment or change in diet.
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EMRs can come as standalone applications or part of a
veterinary practice management system, which provides veterinaries with tools
for managing all aspects of the practice, such as billing, printing out of
reminders and handouts, decision support and outcomes analysis.
Other veterinary software applications have been developed for
use outside of the practice. These applications can be used for activities such
as diseases surveillance and diagnosis, parasite identification and collection
of epidemiological and field data.
Information management systems, like those managed by
Centre for Animal Disease Information and Analysis (CADIA), collect,
manage, analyse and dissemination veterinary epidemiological, field and market
data and make them available for general veterinary use.
The development and promotion of standards in veterinary
information management is being championed by the
Association for Veterinary Informatics This is a non-profit
organization, which through its members also promotes the use of information
technology and electronic communication in all aspects of veterinary medicine.
References
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Boschert, Ken. [WWW] 12TH September 1998. Veterinary
Informatics. http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm
15TH April 2003
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Smith, Ronald D.; Williams, Mitsuko. Applications of
informatics in veterinary medicine. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 2000
January; 88 (1): 0049–0051
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Holbrook, Anne, et al. [WWW] A critical pathway for electronic
medical record selection. http://www.thecem.net/Downloads/path.pdf
16TH April 2003.
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Veterinary Informatics
A brief definition of veterinary informatics, followed a list of veterinary
resources available on the Internet.
http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm
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