Can I just use ChatGPT for vet notes?

What does a clinical assistant do that a general chatbot does not?

Vetinuity listens while you examine the patient and speak with the client, using the conversation to assemble the medical record and bring differentials, diagnostics and treatment options into view, with the supporting journal citation attached to every recommendation for the veterinarian to consider.

Its reference collection contains more than 10,000 peer-reviewed veterinary journal articles, giving you literature to inspect alongside a suggested option rather than leaving the clinical reasoning detached from its source.

The conversation also drives live translation. Automatic language detection means you can start with the client in front of you without choosing a language beforehand. Across 80+ languages, Vetinuity carries the exchange in both directions as the exam happens. Spanish is a familiar example, but you do not have to recognize the language to begin.

Documentation follows that same exchange: the SOAP note captures the visit, and a client summary gives the owner a written account to take away. Discharge instructions come from the visit as well and can reach the client in their own language. You keep talking with the person who brought the patient rather than composing a separate account of the conversation.

When bloodwork arrives on paper, a photograph of the lab panel brings its abnormal values into the record and changes the clinical suggestions to reflect the added information, so those suggestions can be considered in the context of the results you now have.

The rounds board belongs to the individual veterinarian. Hands-free intake and batch rounds capture support that personal view of the patients you are following. Exam recordings and lab photos feed updates into your board. The web application is the primary place to use Vetinuity, so the conversation in the exam room and the record you review afterward are parts of the same work.

The veterinarian remains responsible for deciding which differentials to pursue, which diagnostics to select and which treatment options fit the patient, using the assistant’s explanations and citations as material to review rather than instructions to carry out.

• Listen to the consultation and build the SOAP record.
• Translate the spoken exam both ways with automatic language detection.
• Show cited clinical options beside the case.
• Capture paper records through photographs.
• Keep an individual veterinarian’s rounds board current.

Example

What does that look like in a real appointment?

For this example, imagine a client arriving with a blocked cat whose problem you already recognize, while she speaks no English and you cannot identify her language.

You begin speaking through Vetinuity. It identifies the client’s language automatically and translates what each of you says for the other person. The owner can answer in her language while you continue in English. The point of the example is the conversation: you do not have to stop and identify the language before talking back and forth.

The translated exchange supplies the SOAP note and the owner’s summary, so the discussion you just had becomes the basis of the written visit. Discharge instructions can then be provided in the language the client understands. This is an example of the workflow, with the examination and decisions still belonging to the veterinarian.

See how differential suggestions with references accompany the clinical record, and read about automatic detection and live exam translation for a closer look at the conversation itself.

Can I check where a suggestion came from?

Each recommendation includes its journal citation, placing the evidence beside the differential, diagnostic suggestion or treatment option so you can examine the source while weighing the suggestion against what you learned from the patient and client.

That source is a starting point for your own reading: the assistant explains a proposed option and cites the literature, while you assess how that evidence applies to this case and decide what to discuss with the owner.

A photograph can change the information available for that review, because abnormal lab values enter the record and update the clinical suggestions rather than remaining isolated on the printed panel you are holding.

How should I think about a veterinary assistant vs ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot.

A general chatbot works from what you type or paste.

With Vetinuity, the starting point is the spoken appointment. Think through the work you want carried forward from that exchange: the medical record, communication in the client’s language, the owner’s written summary and your own rounds view. Those are the connected parts of the visit that Vetinuity follows as a clinical assistant.

Who built it?

Brian Toncray, DVM, built Vetinuity while practicing emergency veterinary medicine in Phoenix, Arizona. He uses it on shift. The product follows the work of a practicing veterinarian: hearing the consultation, carrying the client conversation across languages and getting the record from that conversation. The founder’s work in the exam room is part of how the assistant is used today.

What does it cost?

The monthly subscription is $99 per veterinarian, with every capability included at the same price. The 14-day free trial starts with no credit card up front. Access for technicians and assistants is free. An annual option is $800, and the pricing page lays out both ways to subscribe.

Your subscription stays with you across the clinics where you practice. The veterinarian owns the account rather than the hospital, so changing the place you work does not require leaving that subscription behind. You can try the assistant in your own day’s work and see how the spoken exam, translation and documentation fit together.