VitusVet, a mobile app solutions provider for veterinary clinics, is excited to announce the company’s expansion to California. The mission of the company is to improve the health and well-being of pets through innovative technology.52.9% of Californian households own a pet and, as the number continues to increase, the need for a platform to track, share, and maintain animal health records will become more evident.
VitusVet Brings Life Saving Solutions to Veterinary Clinics in California
Posted by Liz Thoms on Jun 2, 2016 3:19:00 PM
Topics: Press Releases
Each year, over 10 million pets are lost or stolen in the United States. Even with our best efforts to keep our pets safe and secure in our homes and yards, situations can change in an instant and things can quickly go awry.
Keeping our pets safe is about more than just trying to contain them in our homes and yards. Outfit your pets with proper pet identification at all times can go a long way toward preventing the heartbreak of losing a pet.
Topics: Pet Health
3 Things Every Veterinarian Should Know About The Cloud
Posted by Mark Olcott, DVM on May 31, 2016 11:00:00 AM
The pace of technological change is truly breathtaking. Computers that were state of the art 5 years ago are now almost dinosaurs. Not because they don't work well or that they are low quality....it's just that technology and the internet is changing. That dusty server in your office may have been "state of the art" 10 years ago, but now it's dangerously outdated. Why dangerous? They’re much easier to hack and significantly more likely to crash. And when it comes to triggering widespread panic in a veterinary practice, an aggressive dog or a loose cat has nothing on a server that crashed!
Topics: Innovative Technology For Vets, For Practice Managers
Better Connected Veterinarians Are Better Veterinarians.
Posted by Mark Olcott, DVM on May 27, 2016 12:00:00 AM
As we created VitusVet, our goal was to improve the lives of animals, but to do that we realized that we needed to improve how veterinary clinics shared information. It sounds simple but it is actually very difficult because a lot of clinic's have a common problem: collecting and sharing information efficently, because too much time is being spent on the fax or phone.
I've talked about this problem in a few previous blogs, like Why We Don't Have Better Access To Our Pet Medical Records and 3 Things Every Veterinarian Should Know About The Cloud, but it hit home for us this weekend when we heard about this story:
Topics: Innovative Technology For Vets
Why Your Reminders Are Declining In Effectiveness
Posted by Mark Olcott, DVM, MBA on May 24, 2016 3:21:06 PM
You probably use some type of reminder for your veterinary clinic, whether it's postcards, emails, or pigeon carriers. But surprisingly evidence shows that they aren’t working as well now as they used to.
It's not cost....prices aren't higher than they were 10 years ago when corrected for inflation. So why aren’t clients as compliant as they used to be? There are a number of contributing factors to why they aren’t coming in for their appointment when they should be, the most significant reasons are because:
Topics: Innovative Technology For Vets