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Although veterinary knowledge, techniques In recent years, VetCompass has made epidemiological research, the VetCompass
and technologies are rapidly evolving to extensive use of machine-learning to team developed a secure system for the
improve the care that can be offered, many make sense of the enormous amounts of transfer of anonymised patient records from
animals continue to suffer from disorders data being recorded in veterinary clinics. veterinary practices to a central database.
that could be reduced or avoided if breed- VetCompass shares clinical data on over 20 VetCompass is a community that is
related or environmental risks were better million UK companion animals, covering over committed to open access to all information
understood and shared. VetCompass 200 million clinical notes and half a billion generated from our research. VetCompass
evidence is now a major contributor to the individual sales and treatments 鈥� veterinary papers are open access for free worldwide
overall evidence base on breed-related research is now truly into the Big Data age. impact and are readily findable on the
health in companion animals, especially We now use machine-learning models of VetCompass library /
in relation to the harms from extreme language to identify cases for research and vetcompass/papers-and-data/original-
conformations such as brachycephaly. to understand the subtle contexts in w