animal tracks
Animals used for scientific purposes must be monitored throughout their use to ensure acceptable standards of animal welfare. Until now, widely available purpose-built animal monitoring software hasn’t existed and most researchers record their monitoring - and the associated scientific research data - on paper sheets or electronic spreadsheets. Not only is this inefficient, but it increases risk related to data integrity, animal welfare and regulatory compliance.
Animal Tracks solves that.
Animal Tracks is a software app with built-in data integrity measures that allows those using animals for scientific purposes to:
design and share monitoring templates or use one of our species-specific templates
keep track of approved monitoring templates in one place
assign monitoring activities to team members using calendar integration features
collect and share animal monitoring data - including photos - in real time
automatically stamp date, time and location on entries and track changes
automatically flag designated intervention points such as 15% acute body weight loss
design escalation pathways so that the responsible person is automatically notified when monitoring hasn’t been performed as scheduled or intervention points have been reached
discuss monitoring and share photos in secure group chats
easily integrate, transform and transport data
share monitoring data privately or publicly
Meet the Founder
Dana is a scientist with twenty years of industry experience across several international regulatory environments. She has BSc in Zoology, a MSc and PhD in biomedical science, a Graduate Certificate in Commercialising Research and a Diploma of Quality Auditing.
Dana founded Dana Briggs Consulting in 2021, a successful boutique firm of regulatory compliance consultants who specialise in animal ethics and animal care and use for scientific purposes . She is one of four people in New Zealand accredited by MPI to carry out reviews under section 105 of the Animal Welfare Act 1999.
In her current role auditing and advising organisations using animals for scientific purposes, she sees a huge opportunity for animal monitoring software.
