InfoVet

Veterinary Enterprises Group is proud to announce the launch of Infovet a project we have developed with Pfizer Animal Health New Zealand and Massey University over the last three years.

Led by Adrian Joe, Emma Boyd and Kate Sommerville, Infovet is a secure web based information management software package that consolidates your farm animal health information.  Infovet consolidates your animal records (ID, calving, mating and health) from LIC Minda database, milk records from Fonterra fencepost, lab reports from Animal Health Laboratories and purchases from veterinary accounting program. This provides easy access to animal information in a totally secure package that allows you to make better animal health decisions.

Infovet is a software development to enable veterinarians to manage  the information base of their farm clients and thereby strengthening their ability to solve their client’s animal health problems, especially those that are complex, costly and frustrating like mastitis, reproductive failure, metabolic disease and lameness.  
 
VetEnt Waipa is the first practice in New Zealand to use Infovet on farm.
 
Farm veterinarians are faced with a significant problem in managing the abundance of  information required to solve these types of problems. The required information is not easily accessible and requires further analyses to be useful. Veterinarians often do not have the time or resources to process the volume and complexity of all the available information. This means that farming and veterinary decisions may be based on incomplete knowledge.
 
Infovet is designed to provide solutions to this problem by:
 
·        Bringing together all the data from the various sources, relevant to animal health problems. This includes MINDA, veterinary records, Fencepost records, laboratory records and milking machine test records
 
·        Analysing and reporting results back to your veterinarian
 
·        Benchmarking and alerting functionality allowing the early recognition and intervention of potential animal health problems on your farm
 
·        “Mining” the database to identify possible  links between diseases and causes.
 
                                                           VetEnt Vet (Emma Boyd from Te Awamutu)
                                                                           out in the field with InfoVet 
 
An important  source of data needed for Infovet is dairy farmer’s Minda information from LIC, and milk quality and production information from Fonterra. The more complete these data bases are in terms of animal health events like individual mastitis cases and calving events then the greater power Infovet has to help with problem solving.
 
We require our Farming customers permission to access the MINDA and Fencepost records by completing the sign-up form. As always your information will be confidential to your veterinarian. The more complete your MINDA records are, the more value Infovet can provide. The VetEnt team is looking forward to using Infovet to solve your animal health problems and provide a new level of service to our clients.

A good example of the power of Infovet is managing the information required to solve mastitis problems on a dairy farm. The important data resides in various databases. Individual somatic cell count records and calving dates reside in the herd-improvement organisations, bulk milk somatic cell count data in the dairy company databases and laboratory , consultation and animal treatment purchase records within the vet practice databases. Infovet unites all this information, analyses and reports it to veterinarians to quickly and effectively aid problem solving and decision-making with respect to a farm's mastitis management program.

The technology provides VetEnt with the tools to take farm veterinary practice to a new level of information-based animal health services. Veterinary Enterprises as one of the key investors and developers of the project will have a leading role in the testing and post-release development of Infovet into the future.

All veterinarians are equipped with touch screen computers and portable printers for on farm recording of individual animal and herd treatments and examinations, including a specifically developed non cycling cow and pregnancy testing module for cow side recording.

After every visit a print out of individual animal treatments with with-holding periods, planned treatments and clear instructions is left with the farmer.

Infovet produces individual farm customized alerts for early identification of potential problems.

VetEnt are the first veterinary practice in the world to utilize this cutting edge technology.