Your laboratory's vademecum,
with the dose audited.
A digitised PDF is not a digital vademecum. We turn your catalogue into an application that calculates the dose, works offline and checks every rule before publishing it.
In veterinary medicine, pharmacy and nutrition, a misprinted number is not a cosmetic defect: it is a dosing error. That is why the system does not just display the data — it verifies it.
The definition
What is a digital vademecum?
A digital vademecum is a laboratory's technical catalogue turned into queryable data: each product with its composition, indications, dosage and warnings in separate fields, so the system can compute with them rather than merely display them.
That is the difference from a PDF: in a PDF, “0.2 ml per kilo up to a maximum of 10 ml per site” is a sentence. In a digital vademecum it is a rule the system can apply to a 340-kilo animal, say it needs 68 ml, warn that seven injection sites are required, and work out that a 250 ml vial covers three animals.
And once the data are rules, they can be verified. That is where this work parts ways with any ordinary digitisation.
How a dose is audited
Four independent checks.
Every dose rule goes through four planes that look at different things. All four must come back green for the record to be published. Their independence is the point: an error that fools one rarely fools all four.
Structure
That the rule is complete: species, route, unit, range and frequency. A record missing its unit is not a dose, it is a loose number.
Encoding
That what is encoded matches the dosage text of the insert, segmented by species. This is where dosages swapped between two products on the same page turn up.
Pharmacology
It reconstructs the real mg/kg from the composition —adding up salts of the same active ingredient— and contrasts them with the published therapeutic range.
Practice
That the volume is measurable with a syringe, fits in the container and respects the per-injection-site limit. A correct dose that cannot be administered is still a problem.
The uncomfortable question
And who audits the audit?
An audit that finds nothing can mean two things: that the data are correct, or that the audit is useless. To tell them apart we run a mutation test: known errors are injected into correct rules and we measure how many are caught.
559 errors injected. 556 caught. 99.5%. And the three blind spots are documented by name, not hidden.
That scaffolding found three faults in itself before finding any in the data: it did not read international units, it split per-kilo ranges wrongly, and it confused “0.125” —an eighth of a tablet— with “125”. All three were fixed before a single record was signed off.
96
Products in the first edition
132
Audited dose rules
99,5%
Injected errors detected
0
Errors in production
What it includes
Everything a paper vademecum cannot do.
Weight-based dose calculator
A live-weight dial returning exact millilitres, injection points when the source imposes a per-site limit, and how many animals or patients each container covers.
Works offline
An installable web app with a service worker. It is verified to reload fully with the network cut, because the field, the operating room and the warehouse have no coverage.
Source traceability
Each record declares which edition it comes from and whether it has been checked against the official catalogue. When two editions contradict each other, the app says so instead of silently picking one.
Genuinely bilingual
Indications, dosages and warnings translated, not just the buttons. That is what lets the same product serve several markets.
Gate on deployment
The audit runs before publishing and aborts if it finds an error. A miscoded dose cannot reach production by oversight.
Report for the laboratory
The system generates by itself the list of what is missing or contradictory in the documentation, grouped by type of question. It empties as the laboratory answers.
By sector
The product is the same. The vocabulary is not.
What changes between a veterinary vademecum and a nutrition one is not the technology: it is the regulatory framework, the units and the questions the reader asks.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is a digital vademecum?
It is a laboratory's technical catalogue turned into queryable data: each product with its composition, indications, dosage and warnings in separate fields, so the system can compute with them. The difference from a PDF is that dosage stops being a sentence and becomes an applicable rule: for a 340 kg animal, the system answers 68 ml and seven injection sites.
How is a dose verified as correctly encoded?
With four independent checks: structure (the rule is complete), encoding (it matches the dosage text of the insert), pharmacology (it reconstructs mg/kg from the composition and contrasts them with the therapeutic range) and practice (the volume is measurable, fits in the container and respects the per-site limit). All four must pass before publishing.
How do we know the audit works?
With a mutation test: known errors are injected into correct rules and we measure how many are caught. In a 96-product veterinary vademecum that was 559 errors injected and 556 caught, 99.5%, with the three blind spots documented by name.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes. It ships as an installable web app with a service worker, and it is verified to reload fully with the network cut. It is a requirement, not an extra: the field, the operating room and the warehouse rarely have coverage.
What if our documentation has errors or gaps?
They surface. The audit of that same catalogue found that one product carried the formula of another on the same page, that one vaccine had the indications of a different one, and that two dosages were swapped. The system also generates by itself the list of what is missing, grouped by type of question, so the laboratory can answer it in one go.
How long does a project like this take?
It depends on the size of the catalogue and the state of the documentation. A vademecum of around 100 products with native PDF documentation is a matter of weeks; if data must be rebuilt from scanned material or contradictory editions reconciled, the data phase takes longer. We say so with the catalogue in front of us, not before.
Shall we talk about your catalogue?
Send us whatever vademecum you have —PDF, spreadsheet or scanned paper— and we will tell you what can be done and what is missing. No commitment.