A picture says more than a thousand words

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and in some cases that is certainly true — especially when you are trying to explain where a problem comes from, or which area you treated.

Every discipline has its own examples of when it helps to add an image to a report and mark a few points on it. Think of an animal physiotherapist, an equine dentist, a saddle fitter, a farrier, or an acupuncture treatment on a dog or cat.

Many specialists have collected templates and images over the years to include in their reports, but getting them in there is often fiddly and slow. That is why we built Vetocare Drawings.

With Drawings you turn any photo or image into a drawing and add a note in exactly the right place with a single click or tap. Handy when you want to point at a precise spot on a photo of the animal in front of you. There are two routes you can take:

• Add a separate drawing to the patient file
• Add a drawing to the report of a consultation or treatment

Adding a separate drawing to the patient file

To add a separate drawing to the patient file, open the file of the animal in question and go to Files. Files holds every attachment for that animal. If there is already an image or photo there, you can start annotating it straight away by turning it into a drawing: click the photo and choose New drawing.

Adding a drawing to a consultation or treatment report

The most common use is adding a drawing to a report. Create a new report or open an existing one, and you will find the New drawing button at the bottom. It works the same as a drawing in the file, except this one is tied to the report. When you send or print the report, the drawing is included and your notes are added, neatly numbered.

When you add a drawing to a report you can upload a new image, or use one from the animal’s own file. The third option is practice files: images you keep to reuse as drawings. An anatomical drawing, a picture of the teeth, a saddle-fitting template. That way a drawing is always ready to use and you can shape it around the way you work and the patients you see.

Drawings is included in every Vetocare plan, so you can start using it right away.