Development of a microcomputer system for recording veterinary visits, preparing accounts, and as an aid to herd fertility and herd health schemes

Veterinary Hospital, Wickham, Hampshire.

A computerised method of recording clinical information from farm animal practice visits and using it for herd fertility visits, herd health schemes, the investigation of disease outbreaks and as a source of data for epidemiological studies was developed in the University of Liverpool farm animal practice. The system stores clinical and reproductive information in a data base from which data can be readily extracted and analysed, and monthly bills produced.