Ethan Moore
Founder, DVMiQ Inc.
Veterinary student building DVMiQ from inside vet school. Ironman and marathon athlete.
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Most veterinary software started somewhere else. It was built for human medicine, or for general business operations, and adjusted for clinics to be close enough to be functional and far enough off to create friction everywhere. The workarounds become invisible after a while, which is part of what makes them hard to fix. Sticky notes stay on doors because the alternative requires logging into three systems, whiteboards stay because nobody built a better version, students carry paper because the digital tools were not designed with a teaching environment in mind. The gaps are not dramatic, but they are the kind that accumulate quietly and cost the profession time, accuracy, and training quality every single day.
I started DVMiQ after spending enough time inside those gaps and realizing that I had an obligation to help close them. The products DVMiQ builds are designed from that vantage point, from direct observation of how clinics coordinate care, how students learn procedures, how the externship pipeline actually functions, and what high-fidelity training looks like when the underlying model reflects real physiology instead of a scripted response. The goal is not to replace what exists, it is to build what should have existed already, designed for veterinary medicine from the beginning rather than adapted for it as an afterthought."