Connect farms, veterinary systems, diagnostic laboratories, sequencing, surveillance, epidemiology and reporting into a traceable evidence history across field and laboratory environments.
Animal health and biosecurity evidence typically starts in the field — a farm record, a clinical observation, a veterinary visit — and ends in a report used for surveillance, trade, or regulatory purposes. In between, it usually passes through a diagnostic laboratory, sometimes a sequencing facility, and an epidemiological analysis, often involving several organisations who were never required to maintain one shared record of the whole journey.
This is the problem space our own HerdWare work is built around: livestock biosecurity data that needs to move reliably from farm to laboratory to surveillance system, with the connections between each stage preserved rather than assumed.
The BioChain does not replace farm-management software, veterinary practice systems, diagnostic LIMS or national surveillance platforms. It connects the provenance between the records those systems hold — which animal or group produced which sample, which sample produced which diagnostic or sequencing result, and how that result fed into a surveillance report or biosecurity decision.
If a diagnostic result needs to be traced back to the animal, farm and field conditions it came from six months later, can that chain actually be reconstructed?
In field and laboratory environments that rarely share a common system, that reconstruction is often informal, dependent on individual memory, or simply not possible once staff or software have moved on. A traceable evidence history changes that.
The five steps are the same everywhere. Here is what each one connects in this context.
HerdWare is our own livestock biosecurity product, built on the same underlying provenance approach described here — connecting field, veterinary and laboratory evidence into a traceable history.
Not necessarily. The aim is to connect the records that already get created, rather than impose a new field-level data-entry process on farms.
It can, though the specific data-sharing arrangements need to reflect each jurisdiction’s own regulatory requirements.
Yes. Pigware, our pig-specific module under the HerdWare umbrella, is built on the same provenance approach.