Animal Health Decision Making Aids
LabMagic
is a database that provides stakeholders including graziers,
veterinarians, rural merchandise resellers and industry representatives
access to diagnostic laboratory reports and information. Training notes
for animal health courses and other information is also available at
LabMagic. Password controlled interactive components include:
- Complete diagnostic test reports
- Graphical capability
- Hyperlinks to fact sheets providing detailed information about common problems
- Access to a wide range of information suitable for self learning
- Automatic emailing of the parasitology results as a text file
This
service allows integration of parasite monitoring with decision making
on drench selection and other management options. This provides farmers
with new tools and techniques to achieve economic, effective and
sustainable control of, in particular, 
internal parasites. Internal
parasites are the most important animal health problem faced by the
Australian sheep and cattle industries. In the past, limited options
for disseminating accurate and timely information have hindered the
industries' ability to respond. This new combination of diagnostic
services, comprehensive database and real-time access to results
through a secure website has placed LabMagic as a strategic player in
the campaign against resistance and towards sustainable worm control.
Within
LabMagic levels of access are graduated with graziers and property
managers able to access only their own data. Rural merchandise
resellers, veterinarians and industry representatives are able to
access their own client data. All users are able to graphically
benchmark and compare their data with average data using 
several
parameters including region, parasite species and time.
