%0 Journal Article %T VetCompass Australia: A National Big Data Collection System for Veterinary Science %A Anne Peaston %A Caroline S. Mansfield %A David Brodbelt %A David Raubenheimer %A Jacquie Rand %A James Gilkerson %A Jeremy Hammond %A Martin Combs %A Navneet K. Dhand %A Paul McGreevy %A Peter Hill %A Peter Irons %A Peter Irwin %A Peter Thomson %A Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes %A Richard Squires %A Shane Raidal %A Timothy Baldwin %J Archive of "Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI". %D 2017 %R 10.3390/ani7100074 %X The VetCompass Australia program collects real-time clinical records from veterinary practices and aggregates them for researchers to interrogate. It delivers Australian researchers sustainable and cost-effective access to authoritative data from hundreds of veterinary practitioners, across Australia and opens up major international collaborative opportunities with related projects in the United Kingdom and elsewhere %K companion animals %K canine %K feline %K equine %K disease surveillance %K veterinary %K electronic patient record %K epidemiology %K big data %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664033/