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ZIMS for Medical

World’s Leading Wildlife Veterinary Software​

Designed specifically for zoos, aquariums, and wildlife care facilities, ZIMS for Medical is your comprehensive solution for managing veterinary medical information. ZIMS for Medical focuses specifically on managing and organizing medical data and records for individual animals and groups within these institutions. This software module is designed to help veterinarians, animal care staff, and researchers record, maintain, and share accurate historical and up-to-date medical records for the animals, allowing for more effective healthcare management.
Discover why wildlife veterinarians worldwide trust ZIMS for Medical to enhance the quality of care they provide.

Why Choose
 ZIMS for Medical

Wildlife veterinarians face unique challenges in managing the health and well-being of diverse species. Here’s why ZIMS for Medical is the preferred choice:

Comprehensive Data Management

ZIMS for Medical centralizes all medical records, making it easy to access and update information on each animal’s health history. This streamlined approach reduces the risk of errors and ensures continuity of care.

Global Insights and Resources

With decades of data at your fingertips, ZIMS for Medical offers unparalleled insights into species-specific medical needs. This global perspective helps veterinarians make informed decisions, contributing to better health outcomes.

Enhanced Collaboration

ZIMS for Medical facilitates seamless data sharing between institutions. This is crucial when animals are transferred or when collaborating on research and conservation projects. Improved communication leads to better coordinated care.

Efficiency and Accuracy

Automated features like test results upload and medication management save time and reduce manual errors, allowing veterinarians to focus more on animal care rather than administrative tasks.

Features and Functionality
 of ZIMS for Medical

Some of the key features and functions of ZIMS for Medical include:

Medical records

It provides a platform for recording and reviewing detailed medical histories for each animal, including information about treatments, vaccinations, surgeries, and other medical procedures.

Medication management

ZIMS for Medical assists in tracking medications prescribed to individual animals, including dosages, administration schedules, pharmacy inventory management, and treatment response.

Global Medical Resources

Drawing upon decades of data, ZIMS provides medical staff with insights that are critical to the care of individual animals and unique species, including Anesthesia Summaries, Drug Usage Extracts, Morbidity and Mortality Analysis; and Expected Test Results.

Expected Test Results

Show the “expected” test results for a species based on sex, restraint type, test methodology, and sample type.

Sample Storage

ZIMS for Medical Sample Storage enables staff to efficiently manage an inventory of biological samples. By maintaining a link to ZIMS animal records, health status, sample collection details and more, Sample Storage adds detail that can be critical to discovering breakthroughs in animal disease and species conservation.

Anesthesia and patient monitoring

Record anesthesia protocols given to animals, and track reactions to the anesthesia event and the patient recovery progress.

Pathology

Record and analyze data on disease processes and death records to better understand disease processes and improve health outcomes for various species.

Test Results Upload

By uploading test results to the patient’s ZIMS for Medical record, the Test Results Upload feature makes it faster and easier for zoo and aquarium veterinary teams to record results for hematology parasitology, microbiology, toxicology, serology, immunology, endocrinology, urinalysis and molecular diagnostic (PCR) tests. ZIMS currently supports integration with IDEXX for all test categories and hematology for Antech Diagnostics, Gribbles Australia and Gribbles New Zealand.

Reporting and analysis

ZIMS for Medical includes reporting and analysis tools that allow users to generate reports on the health and medical history of animals for veterinary and research purposes.

Vet Advisor Sharing

Voluntarily share ZIMS for Medical data with Vet Advisor institutions approved by the regional zoo and aquarium associations, to support species’ health management in their ex situ conservation programs.

By using ZIMS for Medical, institutions responsible for the care of animals can enhance the quality of healthcare they provide. It also facilitates communication and data sharing among different organizations when animals are transferred between facilities and with species experts, which can be crucial for collaborative research and conservation efforts.

What members say
 about ZIMS for Medical

With ZIMS, an animal can travel around the world within their life and it will have just one medical file with all information about it.
Dr. Baptiste Mulot, Executive Director of Beauval Nature (France)
ZIMS is tailored to the needs of the veterinary surgeon. It is fundamental to everything that we do in a day.
Dr. Adam Naylor, Senior Veterinary Surgeon, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Record keeping is essential to ensure that everyone is on the same page with an animal’s care, including veterinarians and care teams.
Dr. Vandanaa Naveena Baboolal, Veterinarian, Cayman Turtle Conservation and Education Centre
Millions of unique samples are at the core of our ability to care for and save individual animals and species, now and far into the future. ZIMS vastly improves how the zoo, aquarium, and wildlife communities manage sample resources worldwide.
Paul Calle, Chief Veterinarian and Vice President for Health Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society
When a coral comes in as a patient, each will have a ZIMS medical record, which includes a history of any pathologies sent out and the histopathology report findings. Once the medical team clears them, it may be another year or two until we see them again. Their treatment history and records are invaluable ways we track their health and our interventions.
Lana Krol, DVM, Veterinarian, and Animal Health Department Manager, Steinhart Aquarium
A veterinarian wearing blue gloves gently holds a tortoise, showcasing its textured shell and scales as it peeks out from its protective covering.

Continuous Support
 and Training

Species360 provides unlimited support and training to help staff maximize the benefits of ZIMS. Our member support team is dedicated to assisting you every step of the way, from implementation and data migration to troubleshooting and software updates.
Additionally, we offer free training courses on the Conservation Training website, to help get you started in ZIMS.

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