An OpenVet initiative.
An OpenVet initiative.One billion animals.
Longer, healthier lives.
An OpenVet initiative to give animals a medical history that follows them through life, and to help medicine learn from what happens to them.
The scale
One billion lives
Herds. Flocks. Colonies. Companions. A number so large it stops feeling like anyone.
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Every animal has a history worth keeping
A dog treated for cancer. A horse recovering from an injury. A goat whose health supports a family.
Their histories help the people caring for them make better decisions. Studied together, they may also show how disease and recovery differ across animals, and what they share.
Today much of that is lost. An animal's history disappears when it changes clinics, moves cities, or sees a specialist, and what one vet learns rarely reaches the next.
How it begins
OpenVet helps veterinarians during care. OpenAnimal helps owners through daily life. Together they are the start of a medical history that connects a recommendation with what happened next.
A billion animals will take far more than one company. We want to work with people caring for animals in the places these first products do not yet reach.
What one billion means
We have two ambitions: a medical history for a billion animals, and a measurable improvement in their lives.
Keeping a record is the beginning. The point is better care: illness understood earlier, treatment followed through, suffering reduced, and more healthy years.
What it means
Extend the healthy part of a life.
Not more years of suffering. Records move the same five things on every animal that has one.
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Earlier detection
A value only looks wrong next to the last four. One record turns a normal result into a trend.
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Cross-species
What is proven in sheep informs the goat, the alpaca, the yak. Outside a handful of species, there is very little published evidence to work from.
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Geography
A record that survives the drive from a rural clinic to a referral hospital two hundred miles away.
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Major diseases
Cancer, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes. Read at scale, case records can show which breeds are predisposed, which early signs get missed, and which intervention helps at which stage.
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Zoonotic defense
A cluster in one district becomes visible while it is still a cluster in one district.
One Health
Animal diseases
are human diseases.
known human infectious diseases can spread from animals
CDC
new or emerging human diseases originate in animals
WHO
top human cancers have direct parallels in dogs and cats
NIH
The diseases killing animals are the same diseases killing people. Cancer. Heart disease. Diabetes. Plus the pandemics that start in animals and reach us. Tap or hover any species or disease to see the connections.
Sources: CDC One Health · WHO · NIH Cancer Institute · AVMA. Tap or hover any species or disease
The obligation
What we owe them.
Four parties to every animal's life. None of them can carry it alone.
02 · The animal
An animal cannot ask for help. It cannot say where it hurts, how long it has hurt, what changed. The record is its voice.
The only way its history can speak across time, across vets, across borders.
01 · The caretaker
A rancher alone with a thousand head and no vet for two hundred miles.
A child with a hamster. A farmer with a herd. Each one carries a life, and deserves the best medicine on Earth.
03 · The vet
A vet in Jakarta and a vet in Ohio should know the same things.
Medicine that remembers nothing repeats every mistake. We are building the memory.
04 · The obligation
A civilization that remembers its animals.
A billion animals with better medical histories, and longer, healthier lives.
Every animal someone cares for.
Each one entrusted to a human being.
Tap the animals you care for. Not just dogs, but every creature that depends on someone.
Be part of it.
Care for animals? Study them? Build something that could help? Tell us where you fit.
This is an expression of interest, not consent to a study or a donation of records.