• Written by Michael Noah

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Web-based Veterinary Software

Using a web-based practice management system ensures that you have access to the vital medical information all the time, from anywhere, right from the comfort of your home. Now even more if you are a MAC user. This technology becomes all the more flexible, when you can access it from Home, Starbucks or from the Car.

A Mac user can easily access the veterinary practice’s software without having to opt for special veterinary software for the MAC.

Innovative features

• Digital whiteboard: Access friendly templates for regular treatment, scheduling of patients, and regular updating of information. Easy transfer of information for future invoice purpose.
• Client management: Proper filing of client information and tracking of payments made, post dated checks etc. Quick search by client name, phone, email etc
• Patient management: Complete information of the pet, including a photograph capture. Quick search facility by pet number, pet ID number etc,
• Reminder calling: Send reminder emails to the client with respect to follow-ups or pending payments.
• Set appointments: Know which client has an appointment with you during the week or month-wise, based on whatever calendar you set up.
• Point of sale: Satisfy your client by sending a birthday email or card on the pet’s birthday, showing them how much you care for their pet.
• This opens up an easy-to-use and better way to serve your clients. Short reimbursement cycles, increased efficiencies, detailed reports on revenues, collection and payment status and a long term client relationship.

Life could never have been so easy for Vets

This kind of software makes work easier like never before. It helps you maintain regular and complete animal records. Detailed medical, surgical and prescription information is now at your fingertips. It is easy to track the previous medical history and records of your patient.

Customized for all practices

Each user has the freedom to use the device of his/ her choice. Technology has opened up venues to work in a heterogeneous environment. Use your precious time wisely on management and customer care rather than figuring out how to use the software.

So now even if you use a MAC, technology is on your side. You don’t have to run helter skelter looking for a special kind of veterinary software for the MAC.

Why the question comes up at all

For years most veterinary practice software was written for Windows and installed on a machine in the back office, which left Mac practices choosing between running Windows in a virtual machine and keeping a PC in the corner purely for the practice system. That is the history behind the question, and it is why so many Mac users still assume they need something special.

What a browser based system changes

A system delivered through the browser does not care what the machine is. The same records open on a Mac, a Windows laptop, an iPad in the consult room or a phone in the car park, and there is nothing to install or keep updated on any of them. It also removes the awkward middle ground where one machine in the practice runs a different version from the rest.

What to check before assuming it will work

Ask which browsers the vendor actually tests, not which ones they claim to support. Check that any peripheral you depend on, such as a label printer, a card terminal, a microchip scanner or an imaging device, works from a Mac rather than only from Windows. Peripherals, not the software, are where Mac practices still hit friction.

Where the practical benefit lands

The gain is not really about Macs. It is that the practice stops managing a fleet of machines with software installed on each. Adding a workstation becomes opening a browser, a failed laptop becomes an inconvenience rather than a crisis, and working from home to finish records stops requiring a remote desktop connection.