About PathPal
About
Built around veterinary pathology workflows.
PathPal is an emerging veterinary technology platform focused on making post-mortem, pathology and diagnostic information easier to capture, connect and use.
Why we are developing it
Veterinary diagnostic work creates valuable evidence, but the information can become fragmented across forms, notes, photographs, laboratories and reporting systems.
PathPal is being developed to create a more coherent diagnostic record while exploring how the same structured information might support mortality intelligence, surveillance and preventative herd health.
Simple where clinicians need it. Structured underneath.
Clinical first
PathPal should adapt to the user rather than force experienced professionals through unnecessary prompts.
Evidence connected
Findings, specimens, investigations, images, results and reports should remain connected to the same case.
Developed with users
Planned capabilities should be evaluated with the people expected to use them, not assumed to be useful because they are technically possible.
PathPal is in development. This website describes the product direction and intended capabilities. It is not a representation that all described features are currently operational or commercially available.
Who is developing PathPal
PathPal is being developed by a small team combining veterinary pathology, epidemiology, clinical practice and technology. Professor Alasdair Cook, a veterinarian and epidemiologist whose career spans farm animal practice, international development and senior government and academic roles, leads the veterinary direction. Ashley Morgan leads commercial development.
Technology partner
The BioChain is supporting the project as its technology and infrastructure provider. Its proposed contribution includes hosting, secure data integration, access controls and provenance services, so that records and analytical outputs can remain traceable to their source.
PathPal is the veterinary product. It provides the clinical workflows for post-mortem recording, diagnostic case management, reporting and proposed mortality intelligence. The companies remain separate: PathPal leads the veterinary product, user engagement and commercial offer, while The BioChain supports the underlying technical delivery. Two of the people behind PathPal are also involved with The BioChain. The relationship will be documented through an agreement defining responsibilities, service costs, intellectual property, data-handling arrangements and ongoing support, with service costs set at market rate. The project will distinguish infrastructure already available from components requiring development or configuration.