Project Overview

Firstly, thank you for considering Digital Paradigms as a potential solutions provider for your animal bio-informatics project.  Digital Paradigms provides leadership in bio-informatics software, bio-metric software, and meta-tracking solutions. We work hard everyday to bring our clients stable technology & modern digital processes to help automate their operation, and make their life simpler & more productive.

Digital Paradigms is a privately help corporation located in downtown Boston in the heart of the country’s Biotech center.  We were founded with a vision to bring about a digital shift in the way our clients track, manage, and communicate their business information – with integrity and stability at our core.  We have worked long & hard at developing systems that are flexible, standardized and powerful enough to stand up to any business challenge. 

By leveraging several well known and proprietary technologies, Digital Paradigms has created products that are highly modular, modern, stable and scalable. Our ideal architecture is to create modular building blocks of technology so that each applied use of that technology can be seamlessly connected, separately purchased, upgraded, and scaled – empowering our clients with real time information and business controls while still keeping implementations simple, quick, and realistic.

Animal Bioware™

Animal Bioware Series II Suite™ is the second generation of animal bio-informatics software to be deployed by Digital Paradigms, Inc.  It is more mobile, modular, and functional than ever before.  With multi-platform modules available for: Animal Health, Animal Ordering, Breeding, Census, Facilities, Husbandry, IACUC, Inventory, Occupational Health, Purchasing & Billing, Training, and Technical Services;  it is the most comprehensive solution available, and the next generation standard in the animal bio-informatics software industry.

Animal Bioware Series II - Modules

The Animal Bioware™ Series II Software Suite is a complete set of modular building blocks & software tools that allow you to create a digital nervous system in which you will be in control & informed of all aspects of your animal program.  Select from our many modules, including:

Animal Health

ANIMAL HEALTH MODULE

The Animal Health Module is your key to the veterinary health services portion of the system.  Your care staff, empowered with mobile & barcode technologies, can create animal health cases, create follow-ups & treatment plans.  Health issues can be emailed or paged to principal investigators and veterinarians for near instant response.  Managing veterinarians have many reporting options including, case history reports, reports by facility, or outbreak reports by room.

Animal Order

ANIMAL ORDER MODULE

The Animal Order Module, lies at the heart of the procurement process.  Directly connecting to the IACUC Module for species/strain balances, and offering a wizard web portal, this module will automate the entire animal ordering process. The module includes a PC interface for approving, allocating, and placing animal orders, as well as delivery reports & predictive reports.

Billing

BILLING MODULE

Whether you charge back a daily per diem, for veterinary services, or for animal procurement, the Billing Module can handle these and any number of other billing classes. Billing classes, such as time entry, export fees, and professional services and many others are included in this module.  The Billing Module, automatically creates roll-up invoices, and will export to larger accounting systems.  The Billing Module allows for protocol to grant mapping, and other web based investigator tools.

Breeding

BREEDING MODULE

As the need for new transgenic, knock-out/in models, become the norm, the old breeding software strictly for colony management may not be able to handle the complexities of modern breeding needs. This module deploys both model creation & colony management into a single solution.  With our online web wizard technology, nearly anyone can start the model creation process. The system directly connects to the IACUC Module to validate breeding protocols, and balances.  Also, colony management includes unlimited litters & generations -plus cryo-library & storage tracking.  For breeding cage cards, the system allows for multi-color cage and transport cards -making lines easily visible within the facility.

Census

CENSUS MODULE

Coupled with the latest barcode & mobile technology, the Census Module, is your gateway to facility allocation information, billing / per diem information, and compliance information.  The census information is made available on a web portal for investigators & staff, and available on the PC platform for compliance & space reports.  Graph based reports are also available. 

Facilities

FACILITIES MODULE

This module was deigned with facility managers in mind.  It is meant to help control & predict the flow of animals throughout the facility, as well as manage ancillary tasks such as: room/rack configuration & barcode labeling.  Whether to allocate space, schedule deliveries, or to manage husbandry checklists, this module has the reports, and tools to help manage your facility.

Husbandry

HUSBANDRY MODULE

The Husbandry Module is where basic animal housing & receiving is done, where rooms & racks are labeled, and where cages are maintained & separated.  The staff has instant access to approved orders, and can print uniquely bar-coded cage cards in less than 3 clicks.

IACUC

IACUC MODULE

The first ever wizard based protocol creation tool makes the creation of protocols, amendments, and annual reviews as simple as clicking Next.  The module offers online committee review, approval, and revision requests, as well as, meeting & agenda creation tools.  The module automatically connects to the Animal Ordering Module for balance calculation, and animal transfers.  It also includes automatic reminders of low balance situations, review dates, and emails investigators step by step throughout the IACUC process.

Inventory

INVENTORY MODULE

A natural benefit to having barcode enabled equipment, in the facility, is that it makes tracking food, bedding, PPE supplies, and other supply usage, simpler and quicker.  This module helps with inventory costing, per diem calculation, and re-ordering of supplies.  Create build-to lists, and have the recommended re-order list automatically available via inventory reports.

Occupational Health

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MODULE

With the many staff that you have to manage, and the compliance issues revolving their health, it is essential that your occupational health program keep pace.  In keeping with the Animal Bioware architecture, the Occupational Health Module seamlessly snaps into place.  It understands all of your staff, their roles, and what safety training that they need & when.  The module, also tracks all of their medical tests & results, and keeps track of when they are due for various vaccinations and tests.   The module has many reporting functions and automated email alerts to keep everyone informed when it comes to their health.

Training

TRAINING MODULE

The online Training Module is essential if you have busy staff, and your organization has a high training standard.  This module delivers high value training content on areas that range from SOP’s, Husbandry Duties, IACUC training, and any other content related to your business model.  The training module delivers the courses via web interface, schedules, delivers testing, and tracks the score and historical information on each staff, researcher or investigator.

Technical Services

TECHNICAL SERVICES MODULE

Scheduling and managing technical services such as pathology’s, blood collection, dosing, and other critical can quickly overwhelm your staff.  Using the web interface, investigators and requestors can make request for your services.  These can then easily be prioritized, scheduled, and organized.  Emails flow back and forth notifying everyone of a requests status.  Build resource requirements, and shift reports.  You can even connect to our billing module, and controlled drug request module, to really increase the functionality and efficiency of your organization.

Overview

With the many modules available, the following sections provide a close up view the Animal Bioware Series II Suite™ and the Modules.  With each module, there is more detail to be discussed, and the close up is intended to only provide a reasonable and cursory overview of the modules.

Mobile - Animal Health

Within the Palm application of the Animal Health Module, is the functionality, which allow care staff, veterinary technician staff, and veterinarians keep tabs on your animal program. 

It has been designed for the first level staff to be able to quickly scan room, rack, and cage, and make a quick diagnosis of severity, location and body part information.

Next in the process, the veterinary technicians would receive an email report identifying the animal health issues for a certain facility, room, or cage, and create treatment plans & follow-up on those treatment plans.

Depicted below, are the various screens that empower your staff to start automating their animal health reports:

PC - Animal Health

On the PC, there are various components which allow you to manage your animal health program.  Some of the basic functionality is as follows:

Animal Health Record – Whether you would like to know the health history for a particular animal, or are auditing animal health for protocol pain category compliance, the system, gives a detail history of each health case, who reported it, the treatment plan, pain score, and much more.

Email Capabilities – This functionality allows you to send animal health information to Investigators, their staff, internal or external veterinarians.  You can automate your email process with automated alerts & reminders for follow-up.

Animal Health Reports – The report builder allows you to create animal health reports by many criteria.  You could track an outbreak by room or animal health issues by month, or simply just glean all the animal health issues by a certain protocol.

Animal Ordering Module

The animal order module provides an end to end solution for your animal ordering process.  It starts with the protocol information provided by either our native protocol module, or by an outside data feed.  Then using an online web wizard provides a place for your investigators and their staff to create draft orders, and submit orders & standing orders.  The orders are then approved & allocated space by your facility managers.  The process continues on to housing, each step of the way communicating via email & online notification.

Web Based Ordering Wizard

The animal order web module provides an automated wizard to allow your investigators and their staff to self guide themselves through creating an order step by step.  The orders can then be submitted after passing through a business rule validation engine.

Business Rules Validation

Whether you have animal order blackout dates, require end of study, or  strains to be listed, an automated business rule validation engine checks the order prior to submission by the investigator:

PC Order Management

Your animal ordering staff will have complete access to all orders, standing orders, drafts or submitted orders.  It empowers them with the ability to monitor all orders step by step as they move through the fulfillment process.  They have filter capabilities to search through all of the orders finding any order at any time.

PC Order Reports

Pick from the many animal order reports to help manage your animal services.  Select from the costing reports, delivery reports, predictor reports, facility reports, and back order reports.