What software handles hospitalised patients and treatment sheets?
Updated November 2026. Every outside fact links to its source.
The short answer
You need an electronic treatment sheet: scheduled orders on an hourly grid, check-offs that record who did what and when, fluids and vitals, and a board showing every inpatient at once. Options include add-ons like Vet Radar 1 and SmartFlow 2, or a practice system with sheets built in.
Vivetra Hospital is a newer system with the sheet and ward board inside the practice system, at $200/mo flat. Its sheet doesn’t update live across devices and can’t be printed yet.
Options compared
| Vet Radar | SmartFlow | Instinct EMR | Vivetra Hospital | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | homepage: "digital charting, integrated treatment sheets, task tracking dashboards and whiteboards" 1 | "Digitized treatment sheets create better visibility among your team, faster communication, and more mobile access" 2 | An EMR with a digital treatment sheet 3 | A Hospital service inside a full practice system |
| Practice-system relationship | "Vet Radar automatically syncs clinical care information with ezyVet." 4 | Not compared | Not compared | It is the practice system |
| Charges from treatments | Not compared | Not compared | treatments are "documented on the digital treatment sheet to your invoice in real time" 3 | No automatic charge capture |
| Published price | pricing page: "Starting from $215 per month" 5 | Not compared | Not compared | $200/mo, +$50 per extra service |
What a treatment sheet should get right
- Contemporaneous, attributable entries. The RCVS expects records to be clear, accurate and adequately detailed, made at the time or as soon as reasonably practicable after 6. A sheet should stamp every check-off with a person and a time.
- Overdue that’s impossible to miss. Missed doses on overnight shifts are the point of the tool.
- Fluids and CRIs charted across time, with rate changes kept.
- A whole-ward view for the doctor and the next shift.
- The owner kept informed without a phone call every hour.
How Vivetra Hospital handles it
- Hourly-grid treatment sheet. Recurring orders are scheduled in full when ordered. Each treatment shows overdue (red), due this hour (yellow), done (green) or skipped. Every check-off records who and when, and corrections are kept.
- Medication orders with an allergy check at order time.
- Fluids and CRIs as a bar across the hours they run, with rate-change history and bag changes.
- Vitals, including critical-care values.
- Ward board grouped by triage acuity, with code status and overdue counts. It refreshes automatically.
- Code status (CPR/DNR), anaesthesia records, and shift handoff notes.
- Admission to discharge. Admit, transfer, discharge or record a death, with structured discharge instructions sent to the owner’s portal.
- Owner updates. Staff publish status updates to the portal, optionally with vitals and today’s care, with email/SMS notices.
Coming from Vet Radar specifically? See Vet Radar vs. Vivetra Hospital.
Where it falls short today
- The sheet doesn’t update live. The ward board refreshes itself; the treatment sheet shows others’ check-offs on reload.
- No offline check-offs. Sheet entries need a connection (some hospital forms do queue offline).
- No printable sheet.
- No push alerts for due treatments; overdue counts show on the board and dashboard.
- No cage or kennel location on the board yet.
- No automatic charge capture. Treatments don’t bill themselves.
- Controlled-drug doses are logged separately in the register, not automatically from the check-off.
- We’re new, with no comparable track record.
Questions people ask
What is a veterinary treatment sheet?
The hour-by-hour plan and record for a hospitalised patient: medications, fluids, checks, and who did each one when.
Is there software that replaces paper treatment sheets?
Can the ward board show every inpatient?
In Vivetra, yes. It groups admitted patients by triage acuity, with code status and overdue counts.
Does Vivetra chart fluids and CRIs?
Yes, across the hours they run, with rate changes and bag changes kept.
Can I print a Vivetra treatment sheet?
Not yet.
Does the sheet update in real time on other devices?
Not yet. The ward board refreshes automatically; the sheet updates on reload.