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Vet Radar vs VIA Veterinary

Vet Radar logo

Vet Radar

Veterinary

Cloud treatment sheets and inpatient whiteboards that push missed charges back into the practice system

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
VIA Veterinary logo

VIA Veterinary

Veterinary

Medically oriented veterinary practice management, now owned by Antech and Mars Veterinary Health

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Vet Radar it is not a practice management system and cannot be bought instead of one, so the subscription is additional to whatever you already pay for your core software.; VIA Veterinary the vendor is owned by Mars Veterinary Health through Antech, the same group that owns Antech Diagnostics, Banfield and VCA, so a practice is buying its record system from its diagnostics supplier and its competitor in the consolidation market.
  • They diverge on capability: Vet Radar covers Electronic treatment sheets, VIA Veterinary covers Clinical flowsheets.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Vet Radar and VIA Veterinary actually diverge.

Attributes where Vet Radar and VIA Veterinary differ
AttributeVet RadarVIA Veterinary
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWindows, Web, iPadOS

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Veterinary).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Vet Radar

  • Electronic treatment sheets
  • Charge capture
  • Anaesthetic records
  • Whiteboard view
  • Drug calculations
  • Audit trail

Only in VIA Veterinary

  • Clinical flowsheets
  • Integrated SOAP
  • DICOM imaging
  • Laboratory results
  • VIA Cloud
  • VIA Touch
  • Multi-site
  • Open standards integration

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Vet Radar

  • A hospital losing inpatient charges because the paper treatment sheet never reaches the invoicenot VIA Veterinary
  • An emergency and critical care centre needing a legible timed record of overnight nursingnot VIA Veterinary
  • A surgical practice wanting anaesthetic monitoring recorded digitally rather than on a clipboardnot VIA Veterinary
  • A multi-site group standardising nursing protocols and wanting to compare compliance between hospitalsnot VIA Veterinary

VIA Veterinary

  • An emergency and critical care hospital that runs on treatment flowsheets and a live whiteboard rather than an appointment calendarnot Vet Radar
  • A multi-doctor specialty referral practice needing DICOM imaging and lab results inside the medical recordnot Vet Radar
  • A practice already committed to Antech diagnostics that wants first-party laboratory and imaging integrationnot Vet Radar
  • A multi-site hospital group consolidating separate practice management installations onto one systemnot Vet Radar

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Vet Radar

  • It is not a practice management system and cannot be bought instead of one, so the subscription is additional to whatever you already pay for your core software.
  • Charge capture is only as complete as the integration, so with a system other than ezyVet some items still need manual transfer and the business case weakens.
  • It assumes a tablet at the point of care, so the real cost includes hardware, charging, cases and replacing devices that get dropped in a ward.
  • Adoption is a nursing workflow change rather than a software install, and a team that keeps a paper sheet running in parallel gets the cost with none of the benefit.
  • Buying it deepens a single-supplier relationship that may already cover the practice system and the diagnostics, which reduces leverage in every future negotiation.

VIA Veterinary

  • The vendor is owned by Mars Veterinary Health through Antech, the same group that owns Antech Diagnostics, Banfield and VCA, so a practice is buying its record system from its diagnostics supplier and its competitor in the consolidation market.
  • No pricing is published at all, so licence, implementation, conversion, hardware and support costs all arrive through a sales process and cannot be compared against alternatives before you engage.
  • It remains substantially a Windows on-premises product with a cloud option layered on, so hardware, network and backup remain your operational problem in the traditional deployment.
  • Integration depth with IDEXX diagnostics is the obvious risk given the ownership, and a practice with in-house IDEXX analysers should test that path explicitly rather than assume parity with Antech.
  • The clinical emphasis means front-of-house and client engagement features, including online booking and marketing automation, tend to arrive through third-party integrations rather than natively.

Pricing, plan by plan

Vet Radar

On request
  • Vet Radar$undefined/year
    • Subscription quoted per site
    • Tablet hardware bought separately
    • Practice management system integration required

VIA Veterinary

On request
  • VIA Veterinary$undefined/year
    • Pricing available only through a sales process
    • On-premises or VIA Cloud deployment
    • Implementation, data conversion and training quoted per hospital

Which should you pick?

Choose Vet Radar if

  • You need electronic treatment sheets.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want charge capture.
Vet Radar review

Choose VIA Veterinary if

  • You need clinical flowsheets.
  • You work on Windows, Web, iPadOS.
  • You also want integrated soap.
VIA Veterinary review

Questions people ask

Is Vet Radar or VIA Veterinary better?
Neither clearly leads. Vet Radar starts at On request and VIA Veterinary at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Vet Radar or VIA Veterinary?
Vet Radar starts at On request and VIA Veterinary at On request.
Does Vet Radar or VIA Veterinary run on more platforms?
Vet Radar runs on Web, iOS, Android. VIA Veterinary runs on Windows, Web, iPadOS.
What is Vet Radar best used for?
Vet Radar is most often used for a hospital losing inpatient charges because the paper treatment sheet never reaches the invoice, an emergency and critical care centre needing a legible timed record of overnight nursing, a surgical practice wanting anaesthetic monitoring recorded digitally rather than on a clipboard, a multi-site group standardising nursing protocols and wanting to compare compliance between hospitals. Of those, a hospital losing inpatient charges because the paper treatment sheet never reaches the invoice and an emergency and critical care centre needing a legible timed record of overnight nursing are not what VIA Veterinary is typically brought in for.
What can Vet Radar do that VIA Veterinary cannot?
Vet Radar covers Electronic treatment sheets, Charge capture, Anaesthetic records, Whiteboard view. VIA Veterinary covers Clinical flowsheets, Integrated SOAP, DICOM imaging, Laboratory results.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Vet Radar: Do I need ezyVet to use Vet Radar?

No, it integrates with other practice management systems, but the charge capture and patient sync are most complete with ezyVet and that is where the revenue argument is strongest.

VIA Veterinary: Who owns VIA?

VIA Information Systems is an Antech company and part of Mars Veterinary Health, the group that also owns Antech Diagnostics, Banfield and VCA.

Vet Radar: How is this different from a paper treatment sheet?

A paper sheet records care. Vet Radar records care and turns each completed item into a billable line, which is the part paper cannot do.

VIA Veterinary: Is pricing published?

No. Licence, implementation, conversion and support costs come only through a sales process.

Vet Radar: Does it work offline?

It is a cloud application. Ward tablets need reliable wireless coverage, including in areas like isolation and theatre where practice wifi is often weakest.

VIA Veterinary: Can it run in the cloud?

Yes, VIA Cloud is offered alongside traditional on-premises installation, with cloud backup included.

VIA Veterinary: What kind of practice is it built for?

Medically intensive practices: emergency, specialty, referral, equine and multi-doctor small animal hospitals where flowsheets and whiteboards drive the day.

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