My formal training is in veterinary medicine; I practice mostly food animal medicine around the rural community of Erskine Alberta.

I’ve spent as much time inventing things to help me do my job as I have actually doing the job itself.

Emergion Technologies is a place for my team to collaborate on tech development projects that have the potential to improve the profession of veterinary medicine and the livestock industry in general.

Now think about this for a second.

Most new medical technology is aimed at treating a new or previously untreatable disease. Wonderful! Technology has allowed us to heal more patients than ever before. The cost of such advancement… the job of the veterinarian (or doctor for that matter) is now more technically demanding than ever. The life of a veterinarian, particularly a rural food animal veterinarian, is more stressful than ever. Society’s expectations for treatment are higher than ever, and the liability associated with dissapointing results is more costly than ever.

In short, medical advancement has made the delivery of veterinary services more complicated and costly than ever before.

Emergion is focusing on development of technology that helps the veterinarian, not just the patient. Technology that makes the delivery of veterinary services simpler, less stressful, and more effective for everyone involved in food animal production, vets and animal owners alike.

So why did a cow vet start a tech company?

For the tech sector to successfuly deploy solutions in legacy white collar professions, you must have people who know the profession intimately and also have a natural love for innovation.

Most companies with the means to develop these technologies have no idea what the profession is about; they have no way of knowing where to start, what to build, what problems need solving.

On the other side of the equation, you have doctors and vets. While very skilled in the arts, most medical professionals are not innovators, usually later on the technology adoption curve, and usually hesitant to disrupt the status quo.

I hope Emergion Technologies can play its part.

Ben Schultz, DVM