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Northern Rivers Equine Vet Clinic, Australia |
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Kath McIntosh from Victoria, Australia, started her Northern Rivers Equine Vet Clinic in July 2009 with a focus on equine health.
The challenge for Kath in setting up a mobile practice was finding a solution that could be operated effectively from her car. “The DR systems are very expensive for a startup practice and the film and chemical based solution for taking images meant I couldn’t be mobile, so that wasn’t practical”. Kath spoke to another veterinary colleague who recommended talking to Read Hedditch from ARO Systems.
Read and the team from ARO Systems worked with Kath to design a portable solution that included a laptop with a 17” screen, a CR System from iCRco, and VET-VIEW from IMAGE Information Systems. With a second battery and inverter, Kath can run the whole system including her x-ray machine from her car battery when no power supply is available. “ARO was quite innovative. I gave them my car and they fitted the whole system from start to finish”.
Kath McIntosh enjoys the benefits of being completely mobile: “This solution totally suits my needs and my customer’s needs. Now if I see an issue with a horse out on the customer’s property instead of booking a time and the horse having to travel to a vet surgery for x-rays, we do it on the spot. I can then email those images to other practices if necessary. It is much more efficient and productive.”
Since ARO Systems has installed a totally portable digital imaging solution, the business has grown steadily. Kath is now planning to employ office administration staff and more vets to handle her growing practice.
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22 September 2011 |
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Orange Veterinary Hospital, NSW, Australia |
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The Orange Veterinary Hospital was established in the 1940's and has been servicing the companion, performance and production animals of Orange and the surrounding district for over 50 years. The Orange Vet practice is a genuine mixed practice with 60% of the practice serving small animals, 25% horses and 15% cattle, alpacas and others.
Kim Rolls is a vet with the Orange Vet Hospital and works with a team of over 20 staff. He explained that the motivation to move to a digital practice was a considered one. Research into digital and computer radiology options were explored. The first consideration was that they wanted to go to a form of processing without all the chemicals. Having a mixed practice with 60% small animals and the rest large farm animals, the second consideration was to be able to take images out in the field as well as in the practice. The cost of several digital computers was prohibitive; however, the portable CR option served both purposes. The third consideration was being able to get it installed successfully, so it just worked with little involvement from the vets.
The issue for many vets Kim explains “Nowadays it is hard enough keeping up with all the information just being a vet, let alone the complexity that comes with this sort of digital technology. It is extremely important that we don’t have to deal with that sort of thing. We just don’t have the time. Dealing with ARO Systems meant that we could put it out of our minds”.
ARO Systems had the right solution to meet all their requirements. By offering a Kodak CR combined with IMAGE Information Systems’ veterinary product line VET-PACS a whole new world of digital imaging benefits has been opened for the vet hospital.
Kim explained that the practice has been enjoying the benefit of moving the practice to a digital imaging CR product based system from a film process with chemicals.
“We are very happy with the system. It is both affordable and does what we wanted. At the start there were some issues but the team from ARO Systems couldn’t have been more helpful. The service has been exemplary. As we are a large organisation with over 20 computers we can access radiography images anywhere which is much more convenient and quickly forward them to other practices for referral purposes which is a real time saver.”
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23 August 2010 |
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