The Diagnostic Imaging Atlas by Odyssey Veterinary Software is the complete client education source for all veterinary hospitals. As an author and educator, the 3D anatomical illustrations and images are of the highest quality for continuing education. The program provides a quick illustrative guide for all veterinary conditions for client communication in a very easy-to-use format.

DIA is a powerful client communication tool. It is great to explain some of the more complex medical issues and procedures that otherwise would be over the clients head, ultimately affecting client compliance. DIA’s illustrations bring the problems and procedures to life, which help clients make educated decisions on the pet’s medical care. The illustrations are life-like and do not appear to shock clients but rather educate them on their journey through basic anatomy, disease processes, and therapy.

The system has been a wonderful and powerful client education tool. It works well not only to educate clients about general health care issues such as parasites, and dental care, but it ties in nicely with digital PACs system to help explain radiograph, ultrasound, and endoscopic images. Clients are more likely to allow further diagnostic testing.

Veterinary medicine has never seen 3D anatomy like this before. Spin a heart 360 degrees, give it heartworm disease, show a client a transparent view of a normal heart while it beats or one with Dilated Cardiomyopathy, let them watch an intervertebral disc protrude or a cruciate ligament actually rupture and more. The heart files actually play a virtual normal heartbeat and an arrhythmic beat for the Dilated Cardiomyopathy example. The files have such a high resolution that you can use the zoom tool to magnify into small areas of each file.

The DIA software for equine will available soon on Februari 2010. This revolutionary program allows practitioners to better illustrate medical conditions to clients through amazing animation, video content, virtual anatomy files and much more. The program also includes a complete library of digital radiography and ultrasound images and you can even import your own patient’s clinical images for comparison.

This cutting-edge software provides an exceptional resource for equine client communication. Beside the ability to illustrate pathologies on your computer or laptop, you will also be able to print or email additional information to clients on the conditions you discuss every day.

DIA Reception is a powerful tool to educate your clients while they wait! This software can be run on your PC or on a DIA Touchscreen computer. The program includes several videos on common pet health topics. Vaccines, Wellness Visits, Heartworm Disease, Spaying, Neutering, Allergies and Ear Infections are just some of the titles available.

DIA Reception allows you to create playlists. This means you can have a tailored set of videos for different visit types, such as a Puppy Visit, Kitten Visit, Senior Wellness Visit and more. The DIA Reception videos can also be used on your practice’s website with a subscription to our annual support/upgrade plan.

DIA Touch is highly affordable and offers a complete exam room computing solution. This cutting edge system provides all of the great features from the standard DIA version, plus several new fingertip friendly options. Unlike other touch screens, DIA Touch hardware is unrestricted and allows for installation of your practice management software, PACS software and other applications.

DIA also support for Iphone and Mac OS. This program is free with the purchase of DIA. This program includes that same great content and functionality of the PC version. See what’s new in its new version (4.1 – pdf format). Purchase Now.

The veterinary industry faces a more informed, more demanding client than ever before. Pet owners are willing to spend more than ever before and expect the same level of service and care that is given by human doctors and pharmacists. Currently drug companies and veterinary practices face countless lawsuits regarding side effects, interactions, and lack of informed consent. Veterinarians have found that the VPR program has dramatically changed the way they are able to do their jobs, saving them and their staff time and money. Client are more informed and excited about the improved service they are receiving.

Better communication between veterinarian and client is vital. On the human side, the physician has a pharmacist to help dispense that kind of information. Veterinarians don’t have a pharmacist to help and by the nature of their practice, they are busy, so it’s more difficult to sit and explain every possible side effect to clients. And then, the third party you need is VPR (Veterinary Pharmacy Reference).

VPR has been an essential tool for veterinarians for years. Now it is integrated with Impromed Infinity. The drug information is available right from the Infinity Patient Processing module or from a button on the Infinity toolbar. When the medications in VPR directly linked to Infinity product database so that when a drug is added to an invoice, the prescribing information for that Drug, Strength, and Species is already highlighted.

Inside The VPR:
Interactive Drug Search
Client info, sheets with patient specific prescription info
Printable Drug Information
Anesthesia Consent Forms
Interactive Anti-parasitic Charts
Dosage calculator
Drug interaction matrix with med washout period monitoring
weight measurement and temperature conversion charts

The current version of VPR is VPR 2.8 build 1. In the newest version of VPR a Dosage & Available Forms section has been added to the Calculator. VPR must be installed on every machine that will be running the program. However the Client/Patient information and history can be shared over a network.

VPR will run on most Windows machines currently in use. However, recommended specifications would be at least a 300MHZ processor with 32 mg of memory, and approximately 100mg of free hard drive space.

The database updates come every six months to update VPR with the latest drugs and updated dosing information. If you have any problems VPR support is fast, friendly, & efficient. Order Now

Canine distemper is a highly contagious and serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and, often, the nervous systems of puppies and dogs. Puppies and dogs usually become infected through airborne exposure to the virus contained in respiratory secretions of an infected dog or wild animal.

All dogs are at risk but puppies younger than four months old and dogs that have not been vaccinated against canine distemper are at increased risk of acquiring the disease.

The first sign of distemper is eye discharge that may appear watery to pus-like. Subsequently, dogs develop fever, nasal discharge, coughing, lethargy, reduced appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea. In later stages, the virus may attack the nervous system, bringing about seizures, twitching, or partial or complete paralysis. Occasionally, the virus may cause footpads to harden.

How to prevent Canine Distemper?

Vaccination and avoiding contact with infected animals are key elements of canine distemper prevention.

Vaccination is important. Young puppies are very susceptible to infection, particularly because the natural immunity provided in their mothers’ milk may wear off before the puppies’ own immune systems are mature enough to fight off infection. To protect adult dogs, pet owners should be sure that their dog’s distemper vaccination is up-to-date. Ask your veterinarian about a recommended vaccination program for your canine companion.

Below are kinds of vaccines that often used to prevent canine distemper:

article source: AVMA brochure "What you should know about Canine Distemper"

The Veterinary software recently becomes very helpful for veterinarian especially for veterinary practice. Nowadays there are many available companies provide veterinary practice management software, and they are developed with the latest trends in veterinary medicine and computer technology in mind.

Below, we present a selection of 8 recommended veterinary softwares, along with links to their websites and screenshots of their applications.

VETECH

VETECH Software Services, Inc. has been serving the veterinary industry since 1982. VETECH is proud to be the innovators of many features that are often copied by others. They offer state-of-the-art turnkey stationary or mobile computer systems for the traditional or paperless practice. Their friendly and knowledgeable staff members are available to assist you in designing a system to your specifications.

VETECH currently has over 900 installations nationwide ranging from small animal, mixed, large animal, equine, emergency & 24 hour, specialty, multi-location, house call and paperless practices. From single user systems to networks with over forty workstations, their software can be custom-tailored to meet the needs of virtually any stationary or mobile veterinary practice.

Jupiter Systems

Features:

• Scan paper documents directly into patient records – external labs/referral letters.
• Import emails and attachments direct from outlook.
• Fax – Receive faxes via interfaced software.
• Digital X-rays – Attach files for instant access.
• Image library contains dental charts, eye charts, lesions…
• Send SMS Text reminders for appointments and recalls.
• Attach patient images.
• Automatic order creation
• Download wholesale delivery files.
• Import batch numbers, expiry dates and barcodes.
• Track stock movement between branches & vehicles.
• Scan barcodes at point of sale to store batch and expiry for tracing of stock to batch level.
• Create recalls & client-mailings.
• Produce period-end batch reports for clients.
• Stock inventory and evaluation.

Recently The Jupiter System has update their software. The new software is powered by Voyager. Unlike any other system from any other supplier, Voyager offers a different way of thinking about data storage, access and retrieval, software maintenance, installation and client interaction. Voyager offer Networking Security and Stability via their SQL Server Clustering.

Two or more servers are configured in a cluster arrangement to operate as a “virtual” SQL server. Each server has software locally installed AND also installed via a shared sub-system with the other servers in the cluster.
A “heartbeat” is heard between servers in the cluster, ensuring each server is functioning properly, if not, then “Failover” occurs – i.e. if one machine in the cluster fails, another assumes the responsibilities of the downed server thus the hardware failure does not result in loss of functionality for the application.

CompuVET

A complete design that follows “Best Practices” used in today’s modern veterinary clinics and hospitals. As an “All-in-One” solution, high priced add-ons are not required to experience the core functions that a clinic management suite should provide. Truly designed by “Veterinarians for Veterinarians”. DVM’s research and development employs genuine clinics as beta test sites. By working closely with veterinarians, technicians, and support staff, DVM is truly providing you with a “Best of Breed” solution.

Cow Sense

Cow Sense is the flagship of Midwest MicroSystems L.L.C., which provides information management solutions to the beef industry. Perhaps no other time in history of the beef industry has information management and analysis had such significance for the decisions they make, or fail to make, in their operations. Application of this information can drastically affect profitability! All of this information can easily become overwhelming and traditional analysis to time consuming.

PAWS Veterinary Practice Management

Their mission is to help the Veterinary small business owner overcome business related challenges so that revenues and profits are increased, losses are reduced or eliminated, and the general operation of the business flows more smoothly.

Cattlesoft

With exceptional response to the software, the co-founder, Terrell and Penny determined the need for an easy-to-use cattle software program at an affordable price. Since that time, Cattlesoft, Inc. is pleased to have several thousand ranches in 28 countries using the CattleMax, CattleMax Spanish, and LonghornMax software programs for their ranches. Every day, thousands of ranches throughout the world use the cattle industry information resources available at The Cattle Pages for additional assistance with their operations.

2i Nova, V-Tech Platinum

2i NOVA, Inc. produces V-Tech Platinum, veterinary software for the hospital that needs complete practice management software. 2i NOVA, Inc. was founded in 1988 in an effort to bring affordable Practice Management Software to the veterinary market. Their philosophy revolves around a belief that their existing clients are more important than attracting new clients. This simply means that the usual high level of marketing costs are poured back into creating the best support team in the industry.

AVImark Veterinary Management System

The AVImark Veterinary Software System is the most function rich, user friendly system on the market today. With over 7,800 (and growing) veterinary clinics using the AVImark for Windows program, AVImark is, by far, the software system of choice for veterinary clinics today.

Featured program:

• Appointment Calendar
• Boarding Calendar
• Client Information Display
• Estimates
• Image Capture
• Information Search
• Inventory Control
• Patient Reminders
• Reports
• S.O.A.P. (The Subjective – Objective – Assessment – Plan)
• Treatment List
• Users & Security
• Whiteboard

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