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Structured health event logging
Record treatments, diagnoses, and routine checks against a specific animal with a date and description, building a real clinical history over time.
Health & Care
Every treatment decision starts from a real history, not a guess.
Boma keeps health events, vaccinations, and treatment history attached to each animal automatically, so a vet or manager reviewing a case sees what was already tried instead of repeating it.
Timeline-based
Health events sit in chronological order on the animal’s own record.
Schedule-aware
Vaccination schedules generate follow-ups instead of relying on someone remembering.
Field-ready
Quick health checks can be logged from mobile in seconds, not after the fact.
Health & Care
Health Timeline
Treatments and vaccinations, in order
Every care event for an animal appears on one timeline, with overdue vaccinations and follow-ups surfaced automatically.
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What This Feature Does
In plain terms
Health Workflows covers everything related to keeping an animal well: logging health events and treatments, scheduling and tracking vaccinations, and flagging animals whose status needs attention. Every entry is tied to a specific animal, so the record answers "what has already happened to this animal" without anyone having to ask around first.
Vaccination scheduling turns a recurring obligation into a tracked one. Instead of relying on a manager remembering that a protocol is due, Boma tracks vaccination schedules against the herd and can surface what is overdue, so follow-through does not depend entirely on memory.
For fast-moving situations, the mobile app supports a quick health check flow: a worker or vet can log a routine check or a concern directly from the field in a few taps, which clears an "overdue" flag and adds to the animal’s history immediately rather than after someone gets back to a desk.
Key Capabilities
What you actually get
Each capability below is available today inside Boma, not a roadmap promise. Together they form the working core of this feature.
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Vaccination scheduling and tracking
Set up vaccination protocols for the herd and track which animals are current, due, or overdue, instead of relying on a separate paper schedule.
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Overdue and sick status flags
Animals with overdue care or an active sick status are flagged automatically across dashboards, so nothing depends on someone remembering to check.
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Full history on the animal profile
Every health event sits on the same timeline as the animal’s milk and breeding history, giving a complete operational picture in one place.
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Quick health check from mobile
Field staff and vets can log a routine check or concern in seconds from a phone, clearing overdue flags without waiting to reach a desk.
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Role-appropriate logging access
Any active team member can log a basic health check, while more clinical detail and treatment records follow the farm’s role-based permissions.
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Repeat-treatment visibility
Because history is retained in order, it is easy to see whether a treatment has already been tried for an animal before recommending it again.
Why It Matters
The operational cost this feature actually removes
Health decisions made without history are guesses with good intentions. A vet who does not know that an animal already received a treatment two weeks ago might repeat it, waste time, or miss a pattern that would have changed the diagnosis. A manager who does not know a vaccination protocol has lapsed cannot act on it.
Boma’s health workflows exist to make sure the next decision is informed by the last one. Keeping treatment and vaccination history attached directly to the animal — rather than in a vet’s private notes or a paper file in a drawer — means the farm’s collective knowledge about that animal does not disappear when one person is unavailable.
No repeated or contradictory treatment
A visible history means the next person to treat an animal knows what was already tried.
Vaccination protocols that actually get followed
Scheduled and tracked vaccinations reduce the chance of a protocol quietly lapsing.
Faster response to sick animals
Mobile health checks mean a concern gets logged, and visible, within minutes of being noticed.
Continuity across staff and vet changes
A new vet or worker can review the record instead of needing a full handoff briefing.
Use Cases By Role
How each person on the farm actually uses this
Boma is built around real farm roles. Here is how this feature shows up differently depending on who is signed in.
Owner
Sees herd health status at a glance
An owner reviewing the farm remotely can see how many animals are sick or have overdue vaccinations without walking the pens or calling the manager.
Manager
Coordinates a vaccination round across the herd
A manager can see which animals are due for a scheduled vaccination and assign the work, then confirm completion as entries come in from the field.
Worker
Flags a concern the moment it is noticed
A worker who notices an animal off its feed can log a quick health check from mobile immediately, rather than remembering to mention it back at the office.
Vet
Reviews history before recommending treatment
A vet opens the animal’s health timeline before a visit, sees prior treatments and outcomes, and makes a recommendation informed by what has already been tried.
Admin
Confirms the farm is using vaccination tracking correctly
A platform admin supporting onboarding can check whether vaccination schedules are set up and being tracked, helping the farm get real value from the feature early.
How It Works
Step by step, in practice
From noticing a concern to a documented outcome, health workflows follow a short, consistent path.
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A health event is identified
Whether it is a routine check, a scheduled vaccination, or a concern spotted in the field, the moment is captured as it happens.
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The event is logged against the animal
A worker, manager, or vet records what happened, with mobile quick health checks available for fast field entry.
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Status updates if needed
If the event changes the animal’s condition, status updates to reflect it, which in turn affects dashboards and alerts elsewhere.
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Vaccination schedules track compliance
Scheduled protocols show which animals are current or overdue, without anyone maintaining a separate tracking sheet.
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History accumulates for future decisions
Every event stays on the animal’s timeline, so the next treatment decision has real history behind it.
Data & Control
Who can see it, who can change it, and who is accountable for it
Health data is sensitive to the farm’s operations and is scoped entirely to the farm that created it, isolated at the database level from every other tenant on the platform.
Logging a basic health check is available broadly to active team members so nothing gets missed in the field, while more detailed treatment records and vaccination schedule management follow the farm’s configured role permissions — keeping fast field capture and controlled clinical oversight both possible at once.
Farm-level isolation
Health records are only visible within the farm that created them.
Broad logging, controlled management
Quick checks are open to active staff; schedule and protocol management follows role permissions.
Chronological, non-destructive history
Events accumulate in order rather than overwriting prior entries, preserving the full clinical picture.
Attributed entries
Every health event is tied to the user who logged it, supporting accountability during review.
Business Outcomes
What changes operationally once this is in place
These are the practical shifts farms describe once the feature is part of daily use, not a marketing estimate.
More informed treatment decisions
Vets and managers act on visible history instead of guessing what was already tried.
Fewer missed vaccinations
Scheduled protocols with visible due status reduce the chance of a lapse going unnoticed.
Faster field-to-record turnaround
Mobile quick checks mean a concern is documented within minutes, not at the end of the day.
Continuity through staff changes
New workers and vets can rely on the record instead of a full manual handoff.
Questions
Common questions about this feature
Specific answers for teams evaluating whether this part of Boma fits how the farm actually runs.
Can workers log health checks without full clinical access?
Yes. Quick health checks are designed for any active team member to log from the field, while more detailed treatment records and schedule management can be restricted to appropriate roles.
How does vaccination scheduling know what is overdue?
Scheduled protocols are tracked against the herd, and Boma compares scheduled dates to the current date to flag animals that are due or overdue for a specific vaccination.
Is health history visible to the whole team?
Visibility follows farm membership, so anyone active on the farm can generally review history, while logging more detailed records can be limited by role depending on how the farm is configured.
Can a vet who is not a regular team member access records for a single visit?
A vet can be added as a farm member with the vet role, giving them access to relevant history for the duration of their involvement without granting broader administrative access.
Does logging a health check affect the animal’s status automatically?
Some events, like marking an animal sick, do update status directly. Routine checks that confirm an animal is healthy can clear overdue flags without necessarily changing its status field.
Related Features
Works alongside the rest of the platform
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