Research & development
Research & Development
Testing whether better mortality information can lead to better decisions.
PathPal is under active development. Our priority is not to assume that more data automatically creates better surveillance, but to test what information is useful, how it should be presented and whether it can change real-world decision-making.
Questions we intend to answer.
Capture
Can PathPal improve the completeness and consistency of cattle mortality and post-mortem records without adding unacceptable workload?
Integration
Can pathology and mortality information be connected practically with diagnostic and wider animal-health information?
Intelligence
Can aggregated records produce signals that veterinary professionals judge to be meaningful and worth investigating?
Action
Can the resulting information support clearer farmer communication, earlier decision-making and preventative herd-health intervention?
How progress can be evaluated.
Built for adoption, not just demonstration.
Bilingual from the outset
Welsh and English user experience should be considered during design and testing rather than added retrospectively.
Accessible by design
Accessibility requirements should be considered alongside clinical workflow and language requirements.
Affordable and interoperable
The platform should work with existing systems wherever practical and avoid requiring organisations to replace established infrastructure unnecessarily.
Development and evaluation are intended to be carried out with veterinary users and relevant animal-health stakeholders. Specific project partners should only be named publicly once participation is confirmed.