Making Standards and Technology Work - Dr. Justin Smith, State Veterinarian, Kansas Department of Agriculture. From the NIAA/USAHA 2017 Strategy Forum on Livestock Traceability, September 26 - 27, 2017, Denver, CO, USA. More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrVF-4q74B1CoZMjpStLTrA

1. Making Standards and Technology Work
Justin Smith DVM
Kansas Animal Health Commissioner
September 26, 2017

2. Electronic Data Utilization
• Leverage in-house data software
• Development of “States” eCVI
• Rollout to practicing veterinarians
• Willing to accept electronic data
• Additional electronic CVI forms
• Livestock Market data charts
• OCV and testing charts/spreadsheets

3. eCVI Data Standards
• Version 1 - XML data exchange standards
• Version 2 - enhancing Version 1 to fix issues
• Need adoption of data standards for
additional documentation types
• Animal sightings
• Official testing charts
• Herd Health Plan movements

4. Challenges
• Continuing adoption of technology and
data sharing
• Methodology to exchange data
between states, both import and export
• Lack of interoperability between various
databases limiting data exchange
• State’s laws and rules restricting data
exchange

5. We’ve come a long
way, but we still
have a ways to go.