Vet’Care Consult® launches 21st-century pet-care service across UK

May 9, 2013 - PRLog -- The Vet’Care Consult® (or VCC) service, already fully operational in the USA, is being deployed across France and Europe, and has now arrived in the UK. At a cost of about £40 per month or less, this comprehensive, innovative, and interactive service enables veterinary surgeons to explain diagnoses and illustrate treatments of pets to their owners
more effectively.

VCC, developed by French-based specialist company Medi-Productions, strengthens the relationship between the client and the vet, ensuring better clinical outcomes for the animals concerned, with positive commercial ramifications at all levels for the veterinary practice.

Accessible through a computer, iPad, tablet or other terminal, the VCC service integrates a detailed, 3D multilingual encyclopaedia (illustrated by video-clips and animated items) of common ailments and injuries suffered by pets. At a later stage, the service will be available for other domesticated animals.

Medi-Productions, the company that has designed and developed VCC, presented its novel solution for veterinary surgeons at the BSAVA Congress between 4 and 7 April 2013, in Birmingham (England). [On the occasion of the BSAVA event, a detailed press pack was made available by Medi-Productions, presenting the company's VCC service: to access the press pack, click on the link featured at the bottom of this press release.]

The Vet’Care Consult® service is a 3D animation encyclopaedia of common animal conditions describing, in an interactive and didactic mode, all the usual problems affecting the animals. There is no sound and no text. The entire content is based on the animated data sheets and the videos, with just a few text captions, since it is the vet who does the talking. This makes VCC easy to use, with the potential for a worldwide roll-out.

Several species of animals — dogs, cats, rodents, birds, reptiles, horses, cattle, etc. — will be covered by VCC and animated data sheets are to be added to the database and updated on an ongoing basis. The pet collection has been produced first.

More than 60 generic topics have been identified, divided into 22 sections. Vet’Care Consult® files include various common conditions involving all species, and also all organs and systems — eye, ear, heart, dermatology, gastroenterology, osteoarticular issues, reproduction, etc. The VCC content is available in nine languages (including English) and already used by hundreds of practitioners across Europe and North America.

Classic videos are included in the database to illustrate, for example, an actual treatment route (e.g.: video-clip of a vet technician cleaning the ears of a dog). Radiographs and ultrasound images are included when appropriate to best illustrate the various disorders that can affect the animal.

Each topic and chapter has been produced under scientific supervision and validated by certified veterinarians in order to make sure that the content is academically sound, which guarantees the quality of the information given.

The Vet’Care Consult® interface and content is accessible via a website, but also as a tablet solution (currently iPad and Windows 8 and, in the near future, Android). The VCC platform is accessible on Apple Store.

The content library is already very rich: it features over 600 pieces of animation and several hundred illustrations. The service is available on subscription, as an electronic journal, or as an online communication stream, for a sum well below the average spend for a consultation.

For the web-based or iPad version, VCC costs £41 per month (i.e. £492 for one year, in 12 instalments), and the service is delivered in the manner of a licensed software package. A discount is possible if the client pays cash up front, in which case VCC costs £410 for a year (i.e. 12 months for the price of 10). The VCC service is delivered on the basis of a one-year subscription, minimum.

The return on investment is tangible for the vet, since using VCC improves the treatment of animals (hence clinical outcomes) and facilitates the relationship with the pet owner; all of this, in turn, raises the profile of the practice and increases customer satisfaction.

About BSAVA

The British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) is dedicated to promoting excellence in small-animal practice through education and science.

For further information about BSAVA, please go to:  http://www.bsava.com/BSAVACongress/tabid/74/Default.aspx

About Medi-Productions

Launched in the USA in the summer of 2012, Vet’Care Consult® (VCC) is now arriving in Britain. VCC has existed for 2 ½ years and is already used by hundreds of practitioners across North America and Europe.  Medi-Productions is headquartered in Limoges (in central France), with an office in Cambridge (in England).

To watch the demonstration video, please go to: www.mediproductions.com (under Vet’Care Consult®)

To download the full press pack on the VCC service, please to: http://www.ubifrance.com/medias/document/medi-productions...

For further information about the company, please go to:  www.mediproductions.com

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Ms Katherine WOODS - Press Officer

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