Novartis launches aquacare for improved fish health management

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Novartis Animal Health Aqua (NAH Aqua) has announced the launch of aquacare - a fish health management software to assist fish farmers in continuously improving health management practices for the optimum balance of quality and profitability.

The software has been developed in collaboration with Ocea Mercatus, and, combined, the two companies have invested a total of $1.2 million to develop this tool which provides real time information. NAH describes it as “a step forward towards improving healthcare best practices and the way technical services are delivered by NAH”.

“Novartis Animal Health Aqua is pleased to bring the aquacare platform to our customers as part of our ongoing commitment to the industry,” said Matthias Hofer, Global Head of the NAH Aqua business. “Pulling from a global pool of data, aquacare will offer functionality and technology unlike anything else in the market, and increase the support NAH Aqua can provide to farmers.”

aquacare is designed for global application so that farmers will be able to benchmark their results across the salmonid-farming regions. The platform will ultimately link healthcare data to daily operations to provide complete life-cycle healthcare tracking, reporting and analysis, which are not available through other software systems. It will also incorporate follow-up, alert and reminder functions that help to ensure seamless service right through to harvest.

“What differentiates the platform is a very user-friendly interface design,” said Per Christian Engdal, Chief Technical Officer for Ocea Mercatus. “Combined with the analytical power and flexibility of the software, we see unique potential in aquacare and benefits for customers.”

NAH and Ocea will continue to develop the aquacare platform in response to farmers’ feedback and industry needs. The roll-out of the aquacare software platform started in August 2014 and there are several releases for the platform planned throughout the remainder of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Implementation of the first release will be managed directly by the NAH Aqua Technical Services professionals, working together with the customer. Future releases are already planned, including the launch of a customer portal and further analytic functionalities.