OIE-WAHIS: Providing open access to animal health data
To support countries maintaining global transparency and reporting matters of animal and public health, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) launches the leading most technologically advanced reference platform for animal disease and veterinary capacities reporting – the World Animal Health Information System (OIE-WAHIS).
Maintaining animal health – through tracking of disease outbreaks and followed by appropriate action – is essential for protecting food security and livelihoods. In addition, by expanding the usage, OIE-WAHIS will increase even more transparency about diseases. It will therefore foster safe and fair cross-border trade of animals and animal products as well as evidence and risk-based decision making on animal and public health policies. With faster and more detailed notification about the geographic localisation of outbreaks and subsequently their control, trade restrictions will be better targeted.
OIE-WAHIS will make information about animal health more easily available and usable to everyone who needs it – government agencies, trade partners, international organisations, industry, researchers, academics, journalists and society in general – free of charge, becoming the reference platform. The new platform will make it easy for countries to collect and report information – and upload data from their own databases. Its user-friendly interface will also allow for data to be viewed, analysed and extracted in different formats. OIE-WAHIS is a first cornerstone in the digital transformation of the OIE. It enables an easy and standardised way to connect with other information systems around the world, making data analysis even more powerful.
March 18, 2021, from Pig333 Professional Pig Community.