Our product: The Cytopar Laboratory Suite

Introduction

Cytopar LLC aims to improve and streamline laboratory workflows and in particular quality assurance.

The Cytopar Laboratory Suite contains applications that implement the best practices and guidelines for laboratory processes. It seamlessly integrates with existing laboratory platforms, software, and hardware to greatly simplify and improve the accuracy and efficiency of  laboratory testing.

The Cytopar Laboratory Suite empowers lab directors, managers, supervisors and technicians to focus on improving patient care by concentrating on clinically relevant aspects of their work instead of being distracted with repetitive task loads.

Selected Features

Key features

  • Save time and money by reducing errors and increasing efficiency
    • Enforces your best practices rigorously, every time, using formal workflow specifications
    • We solve your problem in your way, only faster and more reliably
  • Fast deployments and easy customizations
    • Common workflows fully ready to deploy
    • New custom workflows to suit your specific needs also available
  • Fully collaborative environment
    • Automatically coordinate laboratory personnel
    • Fully secure. Digital signatures. 21 CFR Part 11 compliant
  • Rock audits and inspections
    • All documents and the data for every task performed securely stored forever in the laboratory database

Cytopar Formal Laboratory Workflows in 44 seconds

Key Features

  • Complete Audit Trails
    • For all documents and attachments,
    • but also for every task performed
  • Every document automatically saved to the laboratory database
    • No more missing paper binders on inspection day
    • No lost or overwritten files in the hard disk
  • Fully searchable and fast
    • Find any specific item in seconds
  • Every document digitally signed by all required personnel
    • No missing signatures in competencies
  • State of the art cyber security
    • 21 CFR Part 11 compliant

Cytopar Audits, Inspections and Security in 40 seconds

Key Features

  • Receive alerts and  notifications when urgent deadlines appear in your Cytopar pending tasks queue
    • Get voice calls when a new virtual is pending review
    • Get reminders by email for all your competencies
    • You chose what is urgent and how you want to be notified!
  • Send any Cytopar report to colleagues via email straight from the app with a single click. No need to download them!
    • Email the virtual crossmatch report with one click
  • Integrate outside members into your Cytopar workflows via voice calls, SMS and email
    • Automatically request written approval from pre-specified team members via emai for candidates with CPRA over 98%

Cytopar Email Integration in 40 seconds

New in 2023!
Voice calls and SMS added

Laboratory applications

Key Features

  • Save time and reduce errors: Manage all competencies in one app.
  • Easy audits, forget about paper binders: Fully searchable secure Digital Document Store.
  • No need to track deadlines: Automatic, recurring scheduling of competency testing renewal for all your personnel.
  • Pending tasks persist until the testing is performed.
  • Fully configurable: 6 CLIA competency elements plus custom requirements for each laboratory duty.
  • All documents, including attachments and the success or failure of the competency are saved.
  • All competency documents are signed electronically by all the personnel and reviewers involved.

Cytopar Competency Management in 40 seconds

Key Features

  • Capture and organize all standard operating procedures and policies into a centralized document management system.
  • Securely track and maintain all versions of every document. 
  • Edit documents directly in Microsoft Word and automatically synchronize changes with Cytopar.
  • Automate the review, rework, approval, signature, and PDF generation process for all documents. 
  • Remind the Director or designee to review, update, and sign documents every 2 years.
  • Provide access to the latest approved documents to all laboratory personnel while complying with requirements for documents to be available even if your laboratory’s network is down.

Histocompatibility Applications

Key Features

NEW November 2022!

  • Retrieve Donor HLA typing directly from UNOS via API!
  • No PDF files to download or type!
  • Faster than ever! Reduce errors!
  • Instant HLA data validation in all loci to guarantee correct values and standardize nomenclature.
  • Interactive graphical analysis of Class I and Class II antibodies.
  • Swift selection of DSAs and MFIs you wish to report.
  • Automatic PDF report generation with integrated secure digital signatures. Onc click to submit to physicians.

Cytopar VXM in 40 seconds

  • Display donor PDF inside Cytopar to see donor high resolution strings while doing the virtual.
  • Note that before UNOS updates in 11/2022, one had to manually transcribe the donor typing from the PDF files. This old manual way is still shown in the video.

Key Features

  • General tray overview with flagged questionable samples
  • Summary of controls in the same overview
  • Each well shows several parameters to assess the quality of the test
  • The negative and positive control samples are compared to a customizable number of previous controls
  • In a well popup window, a bar graph and dot plot compare all the beads of one sample to the same patient previous sample
  • Samples needing repeat can be selected and follow up to make sure the repeat is not forgotten
  • After analysis a detailed report with the technologist (and other customizable personnel) signature that did the analysis, documents this evaluation

Cytopar Antibody Quality Check (ABQ) in 45 seconds

Key Features

  • Direct Upload of unacceptable antigens to UNOS with a single click
  • Bidirectional integration with LIS database: No need to type or copy/paste any existing information or download any CSV files
  • Current-Proposed unacceptable antigen comparison at a glance.
  • Simultaneous analysis of class I and || antigen data with filterable, sortable antigens, alleles and MFI’s by locus, molecular class or MFI
  • Concurrent, real-time, CPRA calculation directly from UNOS
  • Automatic scheduling of uploads when new samples are analyzed: No need to separately track when and which updates are due
  • Programmable Customized Thresholds with Locus Defined MFI Groups for selecting antigens to be uploaded

Cytopar UNOS Unacceptable Antigens (UUA) in 40 seconds

Key Features

  • Save time and reduce errors
    • No copying and pasting.
    • No need to visit IMGT DP epitope website
    • Perform analysis and upload back to LIS in a single view
  • Just add the patient that needs analysis
    • DP typings from patient and all donors linked to patient retrieved automatically from LIS
  • Analysis performed automatically
    • TCE groups and Immunogenicity assigned automatically
    • Match interpretation generated automatically
  • Review the generated comment and upload back to LIS with a single click

Cytopar DP Epitope Analysis in 40 seconds

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Team

Jorge Moraleda, PhD, CEO & Founder

Jorge Moraleda brings more than 20 years of experience in scientific and data analysis software design and development. He led the group that created the PathWork Tissue of Origin Test, the first gene expression based test cleared by the FDA for clinical use. More recently, Jorge led a team that used innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to develop highly scalable image recognition and classification systems. Jorge is an Adjunct professor in Data Analytics at Northwestern University and an inventor in over 28 US Patents. He holds a BS and an MS from the University of Seville, an MS from École Centrale Paris and an MS and a PhD from Stanford University.

Marcelo J. Pando, PhD, D(ABHI), CSO & Founder

Marcelo Pando is the Histocompatibility Laboratory Director at the Transplant and Genomics Core at Baylor University Medical Center, Texas. Since starting his career in biology, he has focused on implementing new informatic tools to improve laboratory testing quality. Marcelo began his career in immunogenetics at the Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory in Buenos Aires in 1991 where he completed his Ph.D. in HLA and population genetics. He has post-doctoral experience from Stanford University and UCSF. Marcelo has served as the Assistant Director of HLA Laboratories at Stanford University, Director at Mayo Clinic AZ, and consulting director at Gift of Hope, University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins. Additionally he has been a member of the ASHI Quality Assurance and Standard Committee and the UNOS Histocompatibility Committee.

Mac Belniak, Founder

In 2012, Mac’s mom received a lung transplant. Mac was driven to learn everything he could about transplants. He has, ever since, been seeking an opportunity to help improve healthcare outcomes for all. Mac brings over two decades of experience in the enterprise data science and machine learning software industry spanning, product management, user experience design, marketing, and sales. Mac holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern, an MS in Management Science from Stanford, a JD from the UIC John Marshall Law School, and is licensed to practice law in Illinois.

Yanying Chen, PhD, Founder

Yanying Chen has developed industry-leading software for understanding and mining data to improve business processes. She brings extensive experience modeling patient and healthcare-market data and knowledge of the associated regulatory and privacy requirements. Yanying is passionate about applying her data science and software development skills to empower health care providers to deliver better health care at lower cost. Yanying Chen holds a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she performed research in Information Theory and Machine Learning.