From Animal Arrival to Audit Readiness with PicoTeam InVivo
Every animal entering a research facility begins an information journey. PicoTeam InVivo connects that journey—from arrival and housing to daily care, clinical observations, study execution, and audit readiness—helping teams keep information accurate, accessible, and traceable.
Yet information often sits across paper, spreadsheets, emails, cage cards, local databases, and standalone software, forcing staff to search, verify, and update multiple places. The answer is not more standalone tools, but connected information.
One Animal. One Information Journey
At arrival, source, identification, species or strain, sex, age, health status, and quarantine or acclimation requirements establish the animal’s initial record. Study or protocol assignment is added when applicable.
Once housed, staff need current cage-side access to location, tasks, and special instructions. Inspections, environmental checks, clinical observations, treatments, procedures, and study activities then become part of the animal’s history.
A welfare concern may trigger veterinary review, monitoring, treatment, a humane endpoint decision, or follow-up. Approvals, protocol requirements, deviations, and actions should remain connected to the animal and study.
When animals move, change groups, receive treatment, or require further observation, synchronized updates reduce duplicate work and manual communication. At study completion, outcomes are documented and required records are retained, completing each animal’s traceable history.
Connected Information Supports Every Role
Care staff need clear instructions; veterinarians need clinical history; researchers need study visibility; and managers and compliance teams need retrievable records for planning, reporting, and oversight.
A connected ecosystem gives each authorized role the information it needs while maintaining a shared, traceable record.
Audit Readiness Starts on Day One
Every task, observation, treatment, approval, deviation, and housing change contributes to the compliance record. Every entry and correction should show who made it, when, and why. Capturing documentation during daily work builds audit readiness into cage-side execution.
PicoTeam InVivo: One Connected Ecosystem
Digital Cage Cards, the Mobile App, clinical observations, prescriptions, task management, study execution, dashboards, animal history, and integrations are designed to work together as One Connected Ecosystem.
The goal is not simply to replace paper. It is to provide accurate, current, and traceable information throughout the research lifecycle—supporting animal welfare, research quality, collaboration, and ongoing compliance readiness.
Information should never stop at the cage. It should support the entire research lifecycle.