Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food:
Animal Health Computer System
Challenge
The challenge for Version 1 was to take the analysis outputs completed by a third party, expand the design and develop and build the system to support a range of national animal health programmes.
Solution
The system links all of the key players involved in delivering the Department’s animal health programmes - veterinary practitioners, laboratories and administrative staff.
The system integrates with a number of the Department’s other computer systems, including the Corporate Customer System and the Laboratory Information System. It also links to the Department’s financial system and the Animal Identification and Movement System.
Benefits
"Version 1 worked with us to build an award-winning Animal Health Computer System which is a mission critical system used on a daily basis by Department staff, private veterinary practitioners and laboratories nationwide, resulting in effectiveness and efficiency improvements in our national animal health and disease control programmes. AHCS integrates with a number of other systems, including the Animal Identification and Movement system providing the Department with a comprehensive and strategic overview of animal health issues, helping to reduce operating costs and contributing, along with other measures, to a fall in disease levels."
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Spokesperson.
- The system provides major efficiency dividends particularly for the operation of the TB and Brucellosis eradication schemes
- Electronic test reporting has greatly increased efficiency and has reduced delays in submission
- Payment processing has been automated and streamlined.
- High priority herds and tests can be highlighted and prioritised by the system.
- Enhanced reporting gives the Department an overall strategic view of the status of animal health and its varied animal health and disease eradication programmes.
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