Professional Animal Care Across All Contexts

Veterinarians work across boundaries traditional animal management software cannot accommodate. A rural veterinarian might visit cattle farms in the morning, a wildlife sanctuary in the afternoon, and a small zoo the next day. A mobile veterinary practice serves companion animals, livestock, and exotic species. A conservation veterinarian coordinates care for endangered populations across multiple facilities while consulting on community livestock health programmes.

Kora recognises this professional reality. Rather than forcing veterinarians to navigate different systems at different properties, Kora provides unified professional access across all locations and contexts where you provide care.

This chapter explains specialised features designed for licensed veterinarians. Features support professional clinical workflows, facilitate cross-location practice, maintain comprehensive medical documentation, and integrate seamlessly with biosecurity and disease management systems.

What Makes Veterinary Features Different

As a veterinarian using Kora, you have capabilities standard users do not:

Cross-location animal access - Search for and view any animal in the entire Kora system, regardless of who owns them or where they're located. Your professional licence grants you access needed to provide care anywhere.

Clinical observation capabilities - Record professional diagnoses, clinical findings, and treatment recommendations with veterinary-specific documentation fields standard observations don't include.

Automatic biosecurity integration - Your clinical diagnoses trigger automatic contact tracing, exposure identification, and quarantine recommendations based on disease transmission characteristics.

Laboratory workflow management - Order diagnostic tests, track lab results, review findings, and coordinate with consulting veterinarians through integrated professional workflows.

Access audit trails - Every animal record you view is logged with access reason and timestamp. Creates complete professional accountability and notifies animal owners of your consultations.

GPS field observation tools - Conduct field assessments with GPS-tagged observations. Later attribute to specific animals or groups through professional review queues.

These capabilities reflect professional veterinary practice. Comprehensive access balanced by complete accountability. Clinical authority paired with documentation requirements. Diagnostic capabilities integrated with disease management systems.

Your Professional Licence in Kora

Veterinary access in Kora requires professional licence verification. During account creation, you provide:

• Licence number - Your professional veterinary licence identifier
• Issuing jurisdiction - Country, state, or regulatory body that issued your licence
• Speciality (optional) - Area of professional focus (companion animals, production animals, exotic species, wildlife)
• Clinic affiliation (optional) - Practice or organisation where you provide care
• Licence expiry date - When your professional licence requires renewal

Administrators verify your licence credentials before granting veterinary access. This verification protects animal owners, ensures professional standards, and maintains system integrity. Your licence status appears on your profile. Owners can see your professional credentials when you access their animals' records.

If your licence expires or is suspended, veterinary access features are automatically restricted until credentials are updated and re-verified.

How Veterinarians Use Kora Differently

While animal owners primarily work within their own locations and animals, veterinarians work across the entire system:

Owners navigate to their property, select their animals, record observations and treatments.

Veterinarians search the entire animal database, find any animal regardless of location, record professional clinical assessments, trigger automatic biosecurity responses when diagnosing contagious diseases.

This fundamental difference shapes the veterinary interface. Your dashboard prioritises search and professional workflows rather than location-based navigation. You might not "own" any animals in Kora, but you have professional access to thousands across hundreds of locations.

Multi-Context Veterinary Practice

Kora's unopinionated design particularly benefits veterinarians serving diverse contexts:

Rural mixed practice - Visit cattle farms, goat operations, and equine facilities using the same professional interface. Your clinical observations seamlessly adapt to each animal type while maintaining consistent professional documentation.

Wildlife and conservation - Provide veterinary care for wild populations, rehabilitation centres, and endangered species breeding programmes. GPS field observations support mobile veterinary work where animals aren't confined to specific locations.

Zoo and aquarium services - Manage diverse species collections with specialised care protocols. Professional access to multiple facilities supports consulting arrangements without requiring separate accounts at each institution.

Mobile speciality practice - Provide specialised veterinary services (surgery, dentistry, reproduction, imaging) across multiple client properties. Complete treatment histories travel with you, accessible regardless of where care is provided.

Emergency response - During disease outbreaks or natural disasters, rapidly access affected animals across multiple properties. Coordinate response and document interventions systematically.

The same veterinarian account works across all contexts without switching systems, adjusting permissions, or losing continuity of care.

Integration with Other Kora Features

Veterinary capabilities integrate deeply with Kora's core features:

Animal Management (Chapter 8) - Access complete lifetime health records for any animal. Your veterinary observations become permanent parts of animals' medical histories, regardless of ownership changes or location transfers.

Health & Treatment Management (Chapter 10) - Your clinical diagnoses create specialised VeterinarianObservation records linked to standard observations, treatments, and health assessments. Provides professional clinical documentation while maintaining owner-accessible summaries.

Biosecurity & Disease Management (Chapter 11) - Your diagnoses of contagious diseases automatically trigger contact tracing, exposure identification, and quarantine recommendations. Professional assessments activate comprehensive biosecurity responses detailed in Section 20.5.

Traceability & Compliance (Chapter 12) - Your professional consultations create immutable traceability events. Veterinary-issued health certificates, treatment authorisations, and clinical findings become permanent verified records supporting regulatory compliance.

Antimicrobial Resistance Tracking (Chapter 19) - Your antimicrobial prescriptions integrate with AMR stewardship monitoring. Professional clinical justifications, culture-guided therapy, and treatment outcomes support responsible antimicrobial use across all animals you treat.

Maps & Location Management (Chapter 9) - GPS field observations you record during mobile practice automatically capture location data. Biosecurity zone maps show you access restrictions and quarantine areas when visiting properties.

These integrations mean your professional work contributes to comprehensive animal stewardship beyond immediate clinical care. Supports disease surveillance, environmental monitoring, welfare assessment, and regulatory compliance.

Professional Responsibilities and Owner Communication

When you access an animal's record in Kora, the owner receives automatic notification:

Notification to Owner:
"Dr. Sarah Martinez accessed Bella's health record for routine vaccination consultation"

Timestamp: March 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Access Reason: Routine vaccination consultation
Duration: 8 minutes
Actions Taken: Viewed health history, recorded veterinary observation

This transparency builds trust. Owners know when their animals received professional attention, what was assessed, and what recommendations were made. They can contact you with follow-up questions or access your professional observations within their animal's complete health record.

Your clinical observations are visible to owners, but clearly marked as professional veterinary assessments. This distinguishes your professional diagnoses from owner-recorded observations while maintaining comprehensive medical documentation.

Desktop vs Mobile for Veterinary Work

Desktop excels at:

• Advanced animal search across all locations
• Reviewing comprehensive medical histories
• Recording detailed clinical examinations
• Managing laboratory test workflows
• Analysing patient caseloads and treatment outcomes
• Coordinating with consulting veterinarians
• Professional reporting and compliance documentation

Mobile works well for:

• QR code scanning to quickly access animal records during farm visits
• GPS field observations during mobile practice
• Quick health status updates during routine rounds
• Treatment administration recording
• Photo documentation of clinical findings
• Accessing recent animals you've examined

Most veterinarians use desktop for clinic-based consultations and comprehensive assessments. Mobile for field work and farm visits. Both sync to the same professional account with complete continuity.

What This Chapter Covers

The Veterinarian Dashboard (20.1) - Your professional interface: animal search, QR scanning, recent access history, pending attribution queue, and field observation tools.

Cross-Location Animal Access (20.2) - How professional search works across the entire system, access tracking and accountability, owner notifications, and documentation requirements.

Veterinary Observations & Clinical Documentation (20.3) - Creating professional clinical assessments, recording diagnoses and findings, treatment recommendations, follow-up scheduling, and zoonotic disease flagging.

Laboratory Test Workflows (20.4) - Ordering diagnostic tests, tracking lab status, recording and reviewing results, expected turnaround times, and consulting veterinarian collaboration.

Automatic Biosecurity Response (20.5) - How your clinical diagnoses trigger contact tracing, exposure identification, quarantine recommendations, and outbreak coordination.

GPS Observation Attribution (20.6) - Reviewing field observations, attributing observations to animals or groups, bulk attribution workflows, and creating clinical assessments from GPS data.

Who Should Read This Chapter

Licensed veterinarians providing professional animal care across multiple properties, contexts, or animal types.

Veterinary practices implementing Kora for client animal management and clinical documentation.

Mobile veterinary services requiring professional access across diverse client locations.

Conservation veterinarians coordinating care for wildlife populations and endangered species programmes.

Regulatory veterinarians conducting inspections, certifications, or disease investigations.

Veterinary educators using Kora for teaching hospital case management or field practice training.

System administrators configuring veterinary features and managing professional licence verification.

Animal owners working with veterinarians who use Kora will also benefit from understanding how veterinary access works and what information their veterinarian can view and contribute.

Professional Standards and Ethics

Veterinary access in Kora comes with professional responsibilities:

Access only what's clinically necessary - Your professional licence grants broad access, but ethical practice means viewing only records relevant to the care you're providing.

Document access reasons accurately - Recording why you accessed an animal's record creates accountability and helps owners understand the consultation context.

Maintain client confidentiality - Animal health information is confidential. Professional access doesn't authorise sharing information inappropriately.

Provide complete clinical documentation - Your observations, diagnoses, and recommendations become permanent medical records. Thorough documentation serves the animal, the owner, and the profession.

Respond to system-generated alerts - When your diagnosis triggers biosecurity responses, coordinate with affected parties and regulatory authorities as professionally and legally required.

Keep credentials current - Maintain active professional licence status and update Kora when licences are renewed or credentials change.

These responsibilities aren't unique to Kora. They're inherent in veterinary practice. Kora simply makes the consequences of your diagnoses more immediate and visible by automating responses that would otherwise require manual coordination.