Real-time information, smart phone technology and artificial intelligence converge to support rural practitioners. The Veterinary Syndromic Surveillance System website and app are now live. The platform will provide veterinarians a tool to access and input disease information into a central database and more readily see local disease risks and trends.
The new app is populated by participating veterinarians, along with the Veterinary Technology Program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Source: BEEF, April 13, 2022. Link. The VSS website and app provide quality continuing education in production medicine and participation in real-time disease surveillance. It provides practitioners, students and veterinary technicians with an increased awareness of state and regional livestock disease issues.
INSIGHTS: Congratulations to the Texas A&M AgriLife faculty developers. The VSS certainly has potential to optimize and grow a network of geographically separated professionals.