VetCompass Australia: a national big data collection system for veterinary science
Mcgreevy, Paul, Thomson, Peter, Dhand, Navneet K., Raubenheimer, David, Masters, Sophie, Mansfield, Caroline S., Baldwin, Timothy, Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J., Rand, Jacqui, Hill, Peter, Peaston, Anne, Gilkerson, James, Combs, Martin, Raidal, Shane, Irwin, Peter, Irons, Peter, Squires, Richard, Brodbelt, David, and Hammond, Jeremy (2017) VetCompass Australia: a national big data collection system for veterinary science. Animals, 7 (10). 74.
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Abstract
VetCompass Australia is veterinary medical records-based research coordinated with the global VetCompass endeavor to maximize its quality and effectiveness for Australian companion animals (cats, dogs, and horses). Bringing together all seven Australian veterinary schools, it is the first nationwide surveillance system collating clinical records on companion-animal diseases and treatments. VetCompass data service collects and aggregates real-time, clinical records for researchers to interrogate, delivering sustainable and cost-effective access to data from hundreds of veterinary practitioners nationwide. Analysis of these clinical records will reveal geographical and temporal trends in the prevalence of inherited and acquired diseases, identify frequently prescribed treatments, revolutionize clinical auditing, help the veterinary profession to rank research priorities, and assure evidence-based companion-animal curricula in veterinary schools. VetCompass Australia will progress in three phases: (1) roll-out of the VetCompass platform to harvest Australian veterinary clinical record data; (2) development and enrichment of the coding (data-presentation) platform; and (3) creation of a world-first, real-time surveillance interface with natural language processing (NLP) technology. The first of these three phases is described in the current article. Advances in the collection and sharing of records from numerous practices will enable veterinary professionals to deliver a vastly improved level of care for companion animals that will improve their quality of life.
| Item ID: | 50907 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2076-2615 |
| Keywords: | companion animals, canine, feline, equine, disease surveillance, veterinary, electronic patient record, epidemiology, big data |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2017 00:18 |
| FoR Codes: | 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3009 Veterinary sciences > 300905 Veterinary epidemiology @ 100% |
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