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General SettingsGetting Started
Get onboarded and create your first analyzer!
Overview
When you first join Cualia, you will be greeted with an onboarding process to fill out your profile and details about your first organization, lab, and department.
If you were invited to an Organization, you will be directed to that organization after you fill out the necessary information in your profile.
Subscription Plans
Free Plan All new organizations are initially on the Free Plan and can upgrade to different plans later.
Definitions
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
Cualia Library | Cualia includes a library of analyzers, tests, analytes and TEas to include in your organization to get started quickly. General profiles of Laboratory Developed Analyzers can also be used as a template. |
First Name, Last Name | This name will be used for report signing and will be the same across all organizations you are a member. |
Onboarding | The initiation process to set up your user profile and organization’s lab details. |
Organization | The top-level entity representing the overall institution, such as a hospital, clinic, or laboratory network. |
Position | The member’s role within an organization or laboratory such as Department Head or Lab Personnel |
Study | A set of experiments performed to validate/verify a test procedure. |
Test | A Test is a process used to determine the presence or concentration of a substrate. |
Onboarding
You will be presented with a short onboarding to get started. If you are onboarding through an invitation link from an organization, you will only need to fill out part 1.
Profile
To get started with creating your lab enter your name and position. This will be used when signing off on approvals and reports.
If you entered onboarding from an organization invite link you will automatically be directed to the new organization.
Organization
Give your organization a name to get started. This is different then the name of the lab, which you will fill in on the on the 3rd page.
Departments
Give your lab and department a name. After hitting Proceed you will be be directed to your organization dashboard
Creating your First Analyzer
Now that you have your organization, lab and department set up, it’s time to add an analyzer.
On the left side navigation select Analyzers then Add New Analyzer.
From the Add Analyzer modal that pops up you’ll see a list of popular analyzer templates that can be added to a department.
These templates provide a great started template. They can be edited to suit your needs.
If you want to start from scratch, select the lower right arrow to add a fresh analyzer with no tests.
Once you’ve submitted in the Analyzer Details it will show up in your department.
Analyzer Libraries
In the add analyzer modal there are additional filters:
All Libraries → All analyzers available to add.
Cualia Library → Popular analyzers prepared by the Cualia team.
My Library → Analyzers in your organization. Selecting this will allow to clone your analyzer and its test information. This is great for labs that have dozens of the same instrument.
LDT Library → The Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) analyzers with common test groups (such as CBC and Metabolic Panels) without any branding. Great for getting started.
FAQs
What do the details in an Analyzer such as “Analyzer Display Name” mean?
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
Analyzer Display Name | This is primarily how your analyzer will be displayed while navigating in Cualia. Oftentimes in a laboratory setting, instrumentation will often go by a more casual name such as “Blue CBC” or “Chem 01” as opposed to a serial or model number. |
Analyzer Display Name | The shorter human readable designation given to an analyzer used to distinguish it in common workplace discourse (eg Blue CBC) |
Analyzer Identifier | A unique identifier for the analyzer. Usually the Serial Number provided by the manufacturer. |
Analyzer Name | The name of the analyzer, usually the model's name provided by the manufacturer. |
Cualia Library | Cualia includes a library of analyzers, tests, analytes and TEas to include in your organization to get started quickly. General profiles of Laboratory Developed Analyzers can also be used as a template. |
Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) | A method developed by the laboratory or a regulator approved/validated method that has been modified. |
Manufacturer | The name of the Testing System manufacturer that produced the instrument. |
Methodology | The principle mechanism or technology utilized by a system such as Radio Immunoassay or RT-PCR. |
