ICAR

ICAR Technical Series #17

Challenges and benefits of health data recording in the context of food chain quality, management and breeding. Proceedings of the ICAR Conference
Aarhus, Denmark, 30-31 May 2013
Editors: C. Egger-Danner, O.K. Hansen, K. Stock, J.E. Pryce, J. Cole, N. Gengler and B. Heringstad
October 2013
ISSN: 1563-2504; ISBN: 92-95014-13-8

The whole issue containing the Proceedings is available here, while the single manuscripts that compose the Proceedings are listed hereby

• Introduction
• Summary and main outcomes
• Future challenges concerning animal breeding and health
  S. Pavón
• The use of health data: perspective of a Ministry
  M. Putz
• Presentation of Danish system of registration and use of health data (registration, database, data security, herd health contracts,…)
  J. Frandsen
• Vetstat – Monitoring usage of antimicrobials in animals
  N. Dupont and H. Stege
• More than years of health recording in Norway
  B. Heringstad and O. Østerås
• Challenges of health data recording – an Australian perspective
  J.E. Pryce, M. Blake, K. E. Davis and D.S. Beggs
• Use of automated systems for recording of direct and indirect data with special emphasis on the use of MIR milk spectra (OptiMIR project)
  N. Gengler, D.P. Berry and C. Bastin
• Use of health data for research
  M.-H. Pinard-van der Laan
• Standardization of health data. ICAR guidelines including health key
  K.F. Stock, J. Cole, J. Pryce, N. Gengler, A. Bradley, L. Andrews, B. Heringstad and C. Egger-Danner
• Health data recording in Finland
  J. Kyntäjä
• Challenges and opportunities for farmer-recorded data in health and welfare selection
  C. Maltecca, K.L. Parker Gaddis, J. Clay and J.B. Cole
• MediRund: Example of database and data exchange for health data used by farmers and veterinarians in the Netherlands
  B. van ‘t Land
• Validation of the Nordic disease databases
  U. Emanuelson
• Comparison of different methods to validate a dataset with producer-recorded health events
  F. Miglior, A. Koeck, D. F. Kelton and F. S. Schenkel
• Aspects of validation and data quality based on veterinarian diagnoses
  C. Egger-Danner, W. Obritzhauser, C. Fuerst, B. Grassauer, K. Zottl , K. Fuchs and B. Fuerst-Waltl
• Validation, use and interpretation of health data: an epidemiologist’s perspective
  D.F. Kelton and K. Hand
• The value of health data from dairy farmers in the United States
  J.S. Clay, K.L. Parker Gaddis and C. Maltecca
• Benefits of recording of diagnostic data. A veterinarian perspective
  W. Obritzhauser, C. Egger-Danner, K. Fuchs, I. Kopacka, B. Grassauer and B. Fuerst- Waltl
• Benchmarking for health from the perspective of consultants
  A.J. Bradley, J.E. Breen, C.D. Hudson and M.J. Green
• Genomic evaluation of health traits in dairy cattle
  J. Cole, K.L. Parker Gaddis, J.S. Clay and C. Maltecca
• Roundtable with representatives from the different stakeholders and open discussion  – Challenges and Benefits of Health Data Recording in the Context of Food Chain Quality, Management, and Breeding – Perspectives of different stakeholders