Digitizing Wildlife Surveillance for National Resilience

Overview

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative partnered with AppStudio to replace aging, siloed tools with a single nation-scale surveillance system. Built on cloud-native microservices and zero-trust security, the application captures incident data from field biologists, routes samples to veterinary labs, and shares analytics with provincial and federal agencies.

The challenge

Canada needed real-time wildlife health visibility—without paper forms, disconnected LIMS, or offshore data risk.

• Real-time incident reporting from remote regions, including offline conditions.
• Integrated lab workflows across regional veterinary centres.
• Nationwide data sharing with PHAC, CFIA, and provincial ministries.
• Security and PIPEDA compliance for sensitive geolocation and pathogen data.

The solution

We built a secure, cloud-native surveillance platform spanning field, lab, analytics, and DevSecOps.

• Progressive web field module with offline cache, GPS tagging, photos, and sample barcoding.
• HL7-FHIR lab integrations with chain-of-custody tracking and immutable audit history.
• National analytics and alerting for agencies within minutes of sample receipt.
• Kubernetes on AWS Canada with zero-trust IAM, MFA, and multi-AZ resilience.

The impact

Field crews, labs, and policymakers now operate as one cohesive network—detecting emerging threats in hours, not days.

• End-to-end field-to-lab automation cut confirmation times dramatically.
• Ten federal and thirteen provincial/territorial bodies consume live APIs daily.
• Zero non-conformities in the latest PHAC cyber-resilience audit.
• Elastic scale for migration seasons with sub-15-minute recovery objectives.