ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and Big Data applied to veterinary diagnostics: the today various approaches of the subject - IABS

ICT (Information and Communication
  Technology) and Big Data applied to
veterinary diagnostics: the today various
       approaches of the subject

 Diagnostics in the Veterinary Field: The Role in Health
                 Surveillance and Disease Identification
                 May 15-17, 2019Wiesbaden, Germany

Infrastructure and components that enable modern
computing: devices, networking components,
applications, etc, that allow us to interact with DIGITAL
WORD.

Massive volume of both structured and unstructured
data

The biggest application till today in Animal Health & Veterinary science has been:
                                                              Spatial analyses
                                       Bioinformatics (Genomics & Proteomics)

There was a moment in which
we were able to control almost
everything

Currently it’s not possible
  anymore without DATA

We have available multiples possible sources of data
 Sensors
 Identification tags & chips
 Mobile devices
 GPS
 Databases
 Management programs
 Camaras
 Internet of things
 Etc…

Any kind of data source could be welcome:
▪ Public data repositories (World Animal Health Information System, from OIE or
  Global animal Disease Information System from FAO)
▪ Clinical data digitalized
▪ Animal movement data
▪ Production data from Animal Industries
▪ Environmental and climatic factors
▪ GPS tracking devices from people and vehicles….

    Generating and storing data is easy!

How to make de data interoperable?
 Any kind of data source could be welcome:
Standardization    is mandatory
  Clinical data are becoming to be stadarizable for humans: LOINC, HL7,
  SNOMED

  In veterinary medicine, some initiatives has been created – CLINICAL
  WILDLIFE INITIATIVE & some SWINE diagnostic data are being created

  Open possibility: using TEXT-MINING techniques

     Generating and storing data is easy!

1st STEP: Establishing NORMAL metrics
          (baselines)
2nd STEP: Emerging data could be compared IN
          TIME to analyze possible deviations

APLICATIONS:

       •   Epidemiology
       •   Early diagnosis
       •   Pharmacology developments
       •   Managements systems
       •   Etc…

Has this future come?

                        ACADEMIC
 TO INDUSTRY                       DIAGNOSTICS
                        TRAINING

Pets AH industry
•   Market estimation for digital solutions in PET CARE for 2022 = 2,36 billion

•   Mostly all companies on the pet care business have some device + app for pet
    health:

•   Mainly they are shared initiatives by pharma or food companies (Boehringer, Zoetis,
    Mars, …) + technological companies (AGL, Fujitsu)

       •    Activity trackers, applied to health and welfare. Some of them allows vets to
            evaluate clinical evolution of animals.

           INDUSTRY

Production AH industry
•   More sophisticated systems: combining production data with tracking, feed intake,
    milk quality, reproduction data, weather conditions….

•   They are several system applied to dairy, beef, pig industry and poultry and
    even aquaculture
•   Both type of companies: specialized in technology and
    pharma industries.
•   Each system is closed. Do not share data with each
    other. But currently they are available some open
    databases as FarmVet

          INDUSTRY

Most of the Vet schools, are not preparing student into this technologies….

                               …But there are some initiatives to promote it:

                        Veterinary Health Innovation Engine

                        Research Center + startup and incubator in digital
                        technologies applied to veterinarian medicine
                        (Zoetis, Surrey University, Exeter Business School)
     ACADEMIC
     TRAINING

Some figures in Human Medicine

     DIAGNOSTICS

In Veterinarian Medicine & One Health approach

          Recent example of the capabilities

               An analysis of telephone calls to Dutch animal health services in
               2011, identified an increase in the prevalence of syndromes
               associated with the occurrence of Schmallenberg virus (SBV) in
               the weeks prior to the confirmed emergence of SBV.

      DIAGNOSTICS

In Veterinarian Medicine & One Health approach

      ▪ Diagnostic testing systems are each day more
        sophisticated:
           ✓ Genetic testing more precise and fast
           ✓ Serology testing platforms (multiplexing)

      ▪ IT Technology is available and working:
           ✓   More data sources are continuously created
           ✓   More devices are being used in Animal Production
           ✓   More knowledge and specialization for AH specialists is being promoted
           ✓   Companies are completely involved

      DIAGNOSTICS

In Veterinarian Medicine & One Health approach

   VERACITY of data: very much related with validation and certification of data

                                       PM

                                                                                                  Number of data /IT resurces
                                                                 Definitive diagnosis = maximum
                                    Laboratory
                                      testing
                                     Clinical

                                                                           data veracity
                                   Examination

                                  Mortality rates

                              Production records al
                                   herd level
                              Production records at
                                individual levels
      DIAGNOSTICS

In Veterinarian Medicine & One Health approach

                                    INTEGRATION
            Official Animal             AND        Private Animal
            Health services        COLLABORATION           Health

      DIAGNOSTICS

In Veterinarian Medicine & One Health approach

      DIAGNOSTICS

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