Perth veterinary tech startup Vedi has raised $3 million because it appears to be like to turn out to be the pet model of the federal authorities medical database My Well being Report.

The funds got here from two worldwide buyers, with MSD Animal Well being, a division of Merck & Co., as soon as once more backing Vedi, joined by pet-focused New York VC Companion Fund, and will probably be used to broaden Vedi’s medical report expertise for pets in Australia and into the UK.

Vedi was based in 2017 and rebranded from VetDB in August final yr. Cofounder and CEO Dr Steve Joslyn, a specialist veterinary radiologist, was impressed to launch the tech startup after rising weary of information mix-ups and handbook report preserving processes for the pets he noticed.

The result’s a common medical report platform, accessible by way of smartphone, with good knowledge assortment instruments, so vets to entry pet well being data by way of the animal’s microchip. Vedi is utilized by business leaders comparable to Vetpath, Central Animal Data, Vetwest and Petstock, supporting 78,600 animal sufferers together with greater than 54,000 canine, 12,000 cats and almost 3,000 horses.

Veterinarians can use Vedi to seize well being knowledge with simply, together with taking a photograph of a vaccine vial with a smartphone, then locking the info to the animal’s microchip for others to entry, share and replace on over the animal’s lifetime utilizing the platform.

Dr Joslyn mentioned Vedi’s medical data are saving time for busy vets.

“Vedi is radically bettering the standard and accessibility of veterinary well being knowledge and creating a better, linked healthcare system,” he mentioned.

“Vets have been anticipating the transfer to fashionable, digitised veterinary care for therefore lengthy. We’ve taken it upon ourselves to turn out to be the trusted medical report that connects completely different veterinary suppliers so animals can entry the very best quality care anytime, wherever.”

Higher knowledge additionally has the potential to rework pet care, Dr Joslyn mentioned.

“Accumulating higher high quality well being knowledge over an animal’s lifetime will open the doorways to analysis alternatives, biosecurity applications and novel lifesaving remedies,” he mentioned.

“Vedi signifies that quickly animals and vets can have a greater linked, streamlined healthcare system than the human world.”

Oleksiy Nagornyy, lead of companion animal expertise options at MSD Animal Well being mentioned the corporate had supported Vedi from the early levels of its growth.

“We look ahead to the expansion and growth of Vedi’s microchip-enabled well being report expertise, which might convey extra effectivity and accuracy within the administration of well being data to the veterinary group, whereas positively impacting the well being and well-being of pets,” he mentioned

“These sorts of processes beforehand required time-consuming admin like filling out types, writing on samples or calling for a courier – with Vedi, they are often completed on the contact of a button.”