Telemonitoring for Veterinary Teams: How to Increase Efficiencies and Improve Patient Outcomes 🐾

Speakers: The Healthy Pet Connect Team lead by Dr Ken Lambrecht, with intro from Dr. Thom Jenkins of PetsApp

Date: 18th Sept 2024

Time: 10am (Pacific Time), 11am (Mountain Time), 12pm (Central Time), 1pm (Eastern Time), 6pm UK (GMT)

Brought to you by the PetsApp Together Academy, this CE accredited session includes in depth guidance into obesity and chronic care cases from experts in their fields.

Obesity in both cats and dogs is still a worldwide epidemic. In depth education, prescription food, and guidelines have been published by AAHA & WSAVA that outline elements such as the safest rates of loss and protein requirements are available. Effective, easy to use food agnostic calculators provided by the Pet Nutrition Alliance start the “calorie dialogue”. Despite all that, working up and monitoring obesity and other chronic care cases takes a considerable amount of time for veterinary teams and the data captured can often get lost in email feeds and medical records.

Pet parents want to be involved in their pets' care journey and as their veterinarians we need to make sure they are consistently and efficiently advocated for, educated, coached and also rewarded for their full compliance.

Join panelists Drs Ken, Joey and Barr from the Healthy Pet Connect Team to learn how remote patient monitoring (RPM) helps improve patient outcomes with regular, remote follow-ups, monitoring and tracking.

Key Learning Objectives:

✅ How to utilize telemonitoring (AKA RPM) tools to remotely track and enhance outcomes in obesity and chronic cases, monitoring feeding, weight, activity, and medication

✅ How to engage pet parents actively through advocacy, education, coaching, and rewards, fostering a collaborative approach for successful pet care

✅ Apply AAHA and WSAVA guidelines, emphasizing prescriptive foods and food-agnostic calculators for effective pet obesity management

Meet the speakers 🐶

__Dr. Ken Lambrecht: CEO of Healthy Pet Connect, a DVM and Medical Director of West Towne Veterinary Center

Dr Ken is the current owner & medical director of WTVC and enjoys the preventive care challenges of veterinary medicine especially nutrition & dentistry and the special challenges that felines pose. He shares his Lake Mendota cabin with his 4 cats Bug, Roo, Annie, & Georgie all “foster failures” from the clinic as well as running an Airbnb in his lower level. He is very active in organized veterinary medicine serving on the American Academy of Veterinary Nutrition, The American Association of Feline Practitioners, and The Veterinary Cooperative boards of directors. He also is the CEO of healthy Pet Connect a veterinarian telemonitoring service.

When not engaged in his professional endeavors he enjoys stand up paddle boarding, sailing, camping usually with one or more of his adventure cats (Bug, Roo & Annie).

Dr. Joey Goldthorpe: Chronic Care Consultant, DVM

Dr. Joey received her DVM at Oregon State in 2002 and completed a small animal internship at a private referral practice in Colorado. She has worked at an emergency clinic, two cat exclusive practices, volunteered with local rescues and started 2 house call practices providing preventive and end-of-life care.

She has adopted over 60 special needs cats and has missed only one AAFP conference in 20 years!

Her interests include geriatric medicine, behavior, and pain management. She has been involved with Healthy Pet Connect since the beginning and brings vast clinical and personal experience in chronic care monitoring, especially for cats.

Dr. Barr Hadar, DVM

Dr. Hadar has diverse experience in small and large animal practices. He is currently an epidemiology PhD candidate at the Ontario Veterinary College, focusing in health informatics, digital health, and emerging technologies in animal healthcare. Dr. Hadar leads research on the use of technology in clinical and home settings, including remote monitoring devices, telehealth, and methods to analyze health data. Actively engaged at the intersection of technology and veterinary medicine, he is passionate about enhancing animal care through innovation and entrepreneurship within the profession.