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Your officers for 2005-2006 are: President - Dr. Michael K. Martin Feedback Please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments about AVI. |
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Nominations closed at midnight June 5. The only office open was President-Elect--which has by recent tradition also acted as Newsletter Editor. We had no nominations as of that time. We will, therefore, be accepting nominations from the floor at the annual meeting in Hawaii. The annual business meeting will be held in the session room immediately following the Talbot Symposium on Sunday July 15. The AVMA has modified the session schedule this year to give everyone more beach time. Sessions start at seven instead of eight, and the lunch break has been shortened. We will try to keep the formal business as brief as we can in order to take up as little of this bonus beach time as possible. We can then continue the traditional informal discussion at a sunny location to be determined. I would ask everyone to do some thinking about what direction you would like to see AVI take in the future. We have traditionally said that we wanted to maintain a strong practitioner focus. This fit with our mission of extending the uses of computers in veterinary medicine and providing educational material about these uses. We have said that, but our actions seem to be saying something else. The submissions for this newsletter have all related to regulatory, radiology, laboratory, or other non-general-practice related topics. We are a member-driven organization, and our focus is always going to be where ever our members take us. Dr. Michael K. Martin |
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Kentucky’s First Fully Integrated Animal Health Surveillance System Under Way LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 19, 2006) Traditionally Kentucky’s
agricultural industry has had a limited arsenal of tools at its
disposal to track and respond to animal diseases. That will soon
change with the recent announcement by the University of Kentucky
College of Agriculture’s Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center
(LDDC) that a software system has been selected to power
Kentucky’s first integrated and real-time animal health
information system. Proposed AMIA Veterinary Informatics Working Group Dear AVI: I’m writing to solicit interest in the formation of a new Veterinary Informatics working group under the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Presently, AMIA supports approximately 20 Working Groups covering a variety of special interest areas as well as specialized clinical domains such as nursing and dentistry. Veterinary Informatics is making progress, however there is growing interest toward improving collaboration by bridging current activities as well as catalyzing new research and implementation efforts with direct participation under AMIA. We have been in touch with AMIA and there is strong support by the AMIA President and Working Group committee. This is not intended to replace, but to augment current organizational efforts, such as the Association for Veterinary Informatics. One of the first objectives for formation of this group is a petition of at least 25 active AMIA members. If you are an active AMIA member and are in support of a Working group, I encourage you to “sign” our petition (please see details below). If you are not an existing member or need to renew your membership, AMIA now (June 2006) offers a 6-month option through 31 December 2006. Normal membership is by calendar year. Deadline for signing the petition is Friday, 14 July 2006. If you also have interest in serving on a WG committee or wish to participate in drafting initial documents, please let me know as well. You are also welcome to distribute this email or the links below to anyone you believe may be interested. To obtain more information or contribute to this effort, please
go to: A direct link to the petition is
here: Thanks you very much for your help! ---- UCDHS-ASB |
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CAB Abstracts Database We have developed a demonstration veterinary site and we are currently in the process of obtaining feedback on it from potential user groups. During the second half of May I visited, with my colleague Patricia Neenan from our N. American office, state veterinary medical associations in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, specialist practices in Tucson (where we met oncology specialist Sarah Charney) and San Diego, the Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas and Veterinary Centres of America in Los Angeles, and the veterinary librarians group at the Medical Libraries Conference in Phoenix. The visits were to gather comments and advice on our demonstration internet site. We wanted to assess the demand for it, and find out which components are most/least interesting. We also hoped to get some idea of pricing. We designed a short questionnaire and hope to get a good response from a range of veterinarians (specialists, generalists, experienced and newly qualified) and veterinary information specialists so that the results can be analysed in July and we can put a business plan together in August. If we do decide that there is sufficient need for the site then we aim to create it in the autumn and have it ready for release in 2007. I have attached an electronic copy of a sheet that gives basic information on the project and gives you the URLs for the site and for the brief questionnaire, and a user name and password to use. The contents of the attachment are pasted below as I know some people don't like opening attachments. Could I please ask you to examine the Veterinary Resources site and to answer the short questionnaire. Your comments as an information specialist will be valued and appreciated. http://www.cababstractsplus.org/veterinarysciencedemo/ Username: cloak Password: widget http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=94792120892 Also, could I ask you to please forward the message with the links to the demo site and to the questionnaire to as many of your colleagues who may be interested and to ask them also to please take a look and complete the questionnaire by the end of June. The more responses we get the better. Thank you very much for all your help with this. Best wishes Robert Taylor Telephone: +44 (0) 1491 829450 Fax: +44 (0) 1491 833508 CABI improves people's lives worldwide by providing Animal Diseases as Warnings Wider Tracking of Wildlife Illnesses Aimed at Detecting
Bio-Attacks Technology Speeds Paying of Health Bills New York Times America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group for the managed care industry, said that a survey of its members found that 75 percent of current claims were now electronic, compared with 44 percent four years ago. The increase reflects the growing role of electronic claims-processing companies that help doctors and hospitals get paid. New Technology to Aid Movement of Horses Globally An Internet-based business designed to allow animal health
authorities to track and regulate animal movement nationally has
developed technology now recognized by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) for international shipments of horses.
Electronic laboratory forms carrying equine infectious anemia
(EIA), or Coggins, test results are now being accepted by federal
health officials on horses moving to other countries. In a letter
dated May 15 from the USDA Veterinary Services deputy
administrator, GlobalVetLink, L.C., was informed that its
electronic equine infectious anemia (eEIA) system in paper format
for exports can be used for international shipments. Previously
the eEIA lab forms were only recognized by USDA for movement
within a state or between states. http://www.animalagriculture.org/news/2006/GVL%20Press%20Release%2005%2026%2006.pdf Scientists Develop Rapid Diagnostic Test for Foot-and-Mouth and Six Other Livestock Diseases Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists, in
partnership with the federal Homeland Security and Agriculture
departments and the University of California, Davis, have
developed a rapid diagnostic test that simultaneously tests for
foot-and-mouth disease and six other look-alike diseases in
livestock. The new candidate test, which is still undergoing the
process of validation, reduces the period for diagnosing all seven
diseases from days to hours, and could significantly reduce
costs. http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2006/NR-06-05-09.html |
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Information Quality Degree Program UALR-MSIQ Official: The Master of Science Degree information Quality (MSIQ) program at UALR is now official. We are on target for the first class in September 2006. We are also very pleased that Liz Pierce has joined the UALR as a key player to implement the MSIQ program. http://mitiq.mit.edu/UALRMSIQ/MSIQ_Overview.pdf Information Technology Advisor Mongolia Backups Maintenance Server * Insuring the day to day running of the server Network Documentation Website If you are interested, contact Dr Gerald D. Mitchum at gmitchum@earthlink.net Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration, and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. From science to solutions, SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, healthcare and public health, and logistics. With annual revenues of $7.2 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries have more than 42,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. Due to growth, SAIC has immediate openings at our Atlanta area location for information technology professionals, preferably with public health experience. The following positions are available:
To apply for these opportunities please go to http://www.saic.com/career/. SAIC is an Affirmative Action Employer who values cultural diversity. For further information, please contact Tonya Barber, Sr. Technical Recruiter, via email at tonya.k.barber@saic.com. |
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