TY - JOUR
T1 - The application of medical informatics to the veterinary management programs at companion animal practices in Alberta, Canada
T2 - A case study
AU - Anholt, R. M.
AU - Berezowski, J.
AU - MacLean, K.
AU - Russell, M. L.
AU - Jamal, I.
AU - Stephen, C.
PY - 2014/2/1
Y1 - 2014/2/1
N2 - Companion animals closely share their domestic environment with people and have the potential to, act as sources of zoonotic diseases. They also have the potential to be sentinels of infectious and noninfectious, diseases. With the exception of rabies, there has been minimal ongoing surveillance of, companion animals in Canada. We developed customized data extraction software, the University of, Calgary Data Extraction Program (UCDEP), to automatically extract and warehouse the electronic, medical records (EMR) from participating private veterinary practices to make them available for, disease surveillance and knowledge creation for evidence-based practice. It was not possible to build, generic data extraction software; the UCDEP required customization to meet the specific software, capabilities of the veterinary practices. The UCDEP, tailored to the participating veterinary practices', management software, was capable of extracting data from the EMR with greater than 99%, completeness and accuracy. The experiences of the people developing and using the UCDEP and the, quality of the extracted data were evaluated. The electronic medical record data stored in the data, warehouse may be a valuable resource for surveillance and evidence-based medical research.
AB - Companion animals closely share their domestic environment with people and have the potential to, act as sources of zoonotic diseases. They also have the potential to be sentinels of infectious and noninfectious, diseases. With the exception of rabies, there has been minimal ongoing surveillance of, companion animals in Canada. We developed customized data extraction software, the University of, Calgary Data Extraction Program (UCDEP), to automatically extract and warehouse the electronic, medical records (EMR) from participating private veterinary practices to make them available for, disease surveillance and knowledge creation for evidence-based practice. It was not possible to build, generic data extraction software; the UCDEP required customization to meet the specific software, capabilities of the veterinary practices. The UCDEP, tailored to the participating veterinary practices', management software, was capable of extracting data from the EMR with greater than 99%, completeness and accuracy. The experiences of the people developing and using the UCDEP and the, quality of the extracted data were evaluated. The electronic medical record data stored in the data, warehouse may be a valuable resource for surveillance and evidence-based medical research.
KW - Companion animals
KW - Data extraction
KW - Data quality
KW - Electronic medical record
KW - Informatics
KW - Surveillance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.11.005
DO - 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.11.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 24299904
AN - SCOPUS:84891346140
SN - 0167-5877
VL - 113
SP - 165
EP - 174
JO - Preventive Veterinary Medicine
JF - Preventive Veterinary Medicine
IS - 2
ER -