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San Diego, California
March 1, 2000 --DELTA MAX announced today that the draft of initial high-level design specs for the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park Animal Information Management System (AIMS) had been completed and turned over for review to the prestigious institution.
The AIMS application set attempts to bring to the Zoo and Parks veterinarians and staff on-line viewing, processing, up-dating, and dissemination of pertinent animal medical records, as an assist in their work of preserving species and maintaining the San Diego Zoological Society's collection of over 1600 species.
AIMS begins with the checking in of the new animal to the zoo for quarantine and medical records preparation, and carries on through to assisting the veterinarians and staff directly in the scheduled and unscheduled treatment of the animal patients over the course of their tenures at the Zoo or Wild Animal Park.
Past medical and treatment history and current treatment programs information viewed on-line can assist these prestigious San Diego institutions to perform their life-saving and health-maintaining functions with more confidence and assurance that the most current animal status and treatment records are available whenever needed.
The AIMS system encompasses in scope the entire operations of the Zoo and Park in its ultimate deployment.
AIMS is a large project, and its voluminous information and medical records today are primarily in manual form, similar to patients' records in a doctors office or hospital.
They become increasingly important in the care and treatment of animals because the patients cannot explain what hurts, where it hurts, etc.
Further, the wide variety of species means that vets must maintain expertise in many types of animals with similar but not exactly the same physiognomies which require similar but not exactly the same treatment regimens.
The availability of on-line visual records in great detail and searchable in depth will ensure faster vet determination of the exact symptoms and proscribed treatment, plus visible progress of the animal in its treatment program and protocol.
In the necropsy area, the exact cause of any animal's death is of great importance to the Zoo and Wild Animal Park medical team, as it may indicate the existence of infections, etc. of that species' animals, which could be occurring on a wider scale. Such information is of great value in preventing animal epidemics and suffering world-wide.
In addition, the deceased animal does not stop supplying information when it dies; many world-wide institutions have standing orders for body parts and organs of the animal carcasses, which can be filled quickly once the animal dies and the match is determined. AIMS will have the capability of maintaining both the request pool for such parts by type, as well as its own inventory of parts, blood and tissue samples, stored in its freezers, and automating the procedure for obtaining these valuable specimens and parts.
AIMS also ultimately will assist the Zoo and Wild Animal Park to operate more efficiently through what would be called its business systems integrated into the Pharmacy and Purchasing operations currently existing and planned at the Zoo and Park. These currently manual systems have traditionally been difficult to incorporate into standard business systems due to the lack of certain product standards and the nature of the procedures involved in maintaining inventories as well as the intense urgency of medical treatment response.
Additionally, the exciting prospect of adding voice-recognition and other advanced technologies exists within the design of AIMS, allowing more efficient use of the Hospital's personnel as well as facilitating accurate entry.
AIMS in its current definition can assist the Zoo and Wild Animal park also in the Radiology and Laboratory operations, not just in automation of records storage and retrieval, but also by allowing on-line, real-time views of medical treatment and operations upon demand throughout the Hospital, as appropriate. Provision is made in the system design for full Internet connectivity, allowing both SDZ/WAP personnel, or as appropriate, other institutions personnel to view the records and on-line procedures remotely over the web.
It can also provide a base for independent research and study by the Zoological Society personnel, and vastly increase the depth of research from what is feasible today from manual records and hand tabulations, etc.
At the time of this press release, the final design, implementation, and programming of the AIMS system and/or its revised versions had not been formalized, but work was proceeding to bring our initial high-level description down to a formal definition of the desired ultimate system.
The AIMS system represents a conceptual high-level of design goal, a determination of what is possible and feasible.
Through AIMS, universities, research facilities, and other Zoological institutions world-wide will benefit from the maximum use of all the data gathered and maintained for easy reference by the Zoo and Wild Animal Park. The world's data base of animal information will be greatly augmented by the AIMS system contribution when it eventually comes on line.
DELTA MAX is extremely proud of its work in organizing the currently manual applications and providing a guideline for the ultimate deployment of AIMS. We are convinced that the fine work of the marvelous Zoo and Wild Animal Park professionals will be of great benefit to humans and animals everywhere when AIMS is completed.
DELTA MAX has now completed its work at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park. The above represents our view only of the AIMS system concepts and benefits. This announcement is for information only and does not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or comments of the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park.
AIMS at the time of this release was in conceptual phase only, and all the above functions should be considered as preliminary goals and objectives. The reader should also be aware that our comments herein have not been approved by the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, and their views and comments, if any, should be obtained directly from them.
We thank the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park for the opportunity to have been of service in this Project, and look forward to AIMS hopefully becoming a showcase project for them, and an important research and information data base to the world.
The San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park are two of the world's most famous and foremost institutions for the study and care of Earth's animal populations, with dedicated professionals serving all of the world with their work.
DELTA MAX is a Convergence Consulting company based in Newport Beach, California, with diverse capabilities in computer and entertainment industry-related technologies and systems, as well as entertainment content generation, such as feature films and video presentations.
Robert Swanson is President of DELTA MAX, and the coiner of the term "E-Channel", which describes the functions of computer marketing and supply channel process automation over the Web.
Contact DELTA MAX for more information about this project.
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