Polling vs Webhooks in Veterinary PIMS Integrations

If your veterinary software integration pulls data from a PIMS on a schedule, you are polling. At small clinic counts it works. At scale, polling introduces stale data windows, rate limits, a separate initial sync pipeline, and redundant data processing that compounds quietly into a serious liability.

The Four Ways Polling Breaks Veterinary Integrations

Data is always stale. Aggressive polling gets you rate-limited. Initial sync is a separate painful problem. And you end up re-fetching data you already have — 15,000 records to find 12 that changed.

What a Push-Based Integration Looks Like

DataHub Vet is built on a push architecture. Vet software companies connect their webhook endpoint once. DataHub handles initial sync, ongoing updates, dependency ordering, batching, and retry logic — delivering structured data every 15 seconds without polling.

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