Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Traceability topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
TAHC program records director says backlog cleared, agency to push toward electronic movement records
Summary
Program records director Rebecca Galvin reported the department processed tens of thousands of legacy movement records, improved permitting workflows, and will pursue an integrated e-permit and eCVI transition to reduce duplicate entry and speed outbreak response.
Rebecca Galvin, director of program records and quality assurance, told the Texas Animal Health Commission that her team has substantially reduced a multi-year backlog of movement records and is implementing projects to move the agency toward electronic CVIs (eCVIs).
Galvin said program records and quality-assurance staff processed more than 37,000 CVIs between November 2023 and December 2024, manually matched over 21,000 premises to state records and cleared routing backlogs so that forwarding to destination states is maintained within the seven-day CFR requirement. "Between the months of November 2023 and December 2024, over 37,000 CVIs were entered...the final step...was assigning the premises listed on these CVIs to premises known in Texcor," she said.
She described an ongoing IT project funded in part by a National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP/NADPREC) award to create an e-permit pathway and better integrate state vet permit issuance with the agencyTechSource/Core1 systems; the change is expected to reduce duplicate manual entry, create automated hold-order filings, and conclude in 2026.
Galvin said the program records team has also increased staffing and established a program-records team lead and quality-assurance specialists to improve data flow and cross-training with epidemiology for outbreak response. She emphasized that transitioning to an electronic CVI environment will improve traceability during high-consequence events.
Commissioners asked about timing for cleaning the remaining backlogs and shareable slide materials; Galvin said she expects major progress by spring/summer following staffing additions and eCVI rollout work.
The commission did not take action on this presentation; it was informational and followed by questions from commissioners.
