Instrumentation Laboratory Awarded Premier Healthcare Alliance Contract For Hemostasis Product Line

BEDFORD, Mass., July 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Instrumentation Laboratory (IL) today announced that it has been awarded a Capital Equipment Supplier Agreement with the Premier healthcare alliance.  This is the first time Premier has signed a contract with IL for their Hemostasis product line.  IL initiated direct sales, service and support for their Hemostasis product line in North America in 2012.

The new contract for IL's Hemostasis portfolio covers Instruments, Reagents and Supplies.  This includes the ACL TOP® Family of Hemostasis Testing Systems, comprising ACL TOP 700, ACL TOP 700 CTS, ACL TOP 700 LAS, ACL TOP 500 CTS, and ACL TOP 300 CTS analyzers, as well as ACL ELITE®/ACL ELITE PRO systems, and the comprehensive and fully automated line of HemosIL® reagents.  Also offered in the contract are complementary service offerings including a dedicated quality assurance program, clinical and technical specialists and continuing education support.

"Expanding our product offering with Premier reinforces our ongoing commitment to quality patient care through a portfolio of innovative Critical Care and Hemostasis diagnostic solutions," said Brian Durkin, VP of North America Commercial Operations at IL.  "Premier strives to provide its members with the best products in order to provide optimal patient care while ensuring operational and cost efficiencies.  IL's Hemostasis portfolio, with a range of standardized analyzers and assays, is designed to increase efficiency and optimize analytical performance, and is an ideal solution for Premier members." 

For over a decade, Premier and IL have enjoyed a successful relationship with multi-year contracts for IL's Critical Care portfolio, including the GEM Premier 4000 analyzer, GEM Premier 3500 analyzer, GEM Premier 3000, complementary products, GEMweb Plus Custom Connectivity, and dedicated service and support. Throughout their long-standing contracts, IL has been awarded the prestigious Premier Supplier Performance Award numerous times for outstanding performance quality and compliance.  In addition, IL is the current recipient of Premier's Sole Source Accelerated Supply Chain Endeavor (ASCEND) Program for Critical Care products.

In June 2012, IL transitioned to providing direct sales, service, support and marketing to end-user customers in North America for their Hemostasis product line.  A multi-faceted team was developed to cover sales, technical and clinical expertise, as well as field service.   This team was reinforced by in-house customer and technical support groups.  IL now provides direct support to more than 13,000 Hemostasis laboratories around the world, solidifying their position as a leader and innovator in Hemostasis testing solutions. 

About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is one of the nation's largest performance improvement alliances of approximately 2,800 U.S. community hospitals and 95,000 alternate sites using the power of collaboration and technology to lead the transformation to coordinated, high-quality, cost-effective care.  Owned by healthcare providers, Premier operates a leading purchasing network that provided members more than $5 billion in savings in FY2012.  Premier also maintains clinical, financial and outcomes databases based on 1 in every 4 patient discharges.  A world leader in measurably improving patient care, Premier has one of the largest performance improvement collaboratives in America, including one in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.  Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in Washington. https://www.premierinc.com. Stay connected with Premier on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

About Instrumentation Laboratory
Instrumentation Laboratory ( www.ilus.com ), founded in 1959, is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and distributor of in vitro diagnostic instruments, related reagents and controls for use primarily in hospitals and independent clinical laboratories. The company's product lines include Critical Care systems, Hemostasis systems and Information Management systems. IL's GEM^® product offerings, part of the Critical Care line, include the GEM Premier™ 4000 analyzer with Intelligent Quality Management (iQM^®), GEM Premier 3500, GEMweb® Plus Custom Connectivity, and complementary products GEM PCL Plus, a portable coagulation analyzer, GEM OPL CO-Oximeter, and GEMdraw arterial blood samplers. IL's Hemostasis portfolio includes the ACL TOP^® Family of Hemostasis Testing Systems, fully automated, high-productivity analyzers, including the ACL TOP 700, ACL TOP 700 LAS, ACL TOP 700 CTS, ACL TOP 500 CTS and ACL TOP 300 CTS.  IL also offers the ACL AcuStar^®, ACL ELITE^®, other Hemostasis analyzers and the HemosIL^® line of reagents. IL is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. 

The Instrumentation Laboratory logo, GEM, iQM, HemosIL, ACL, ACL TOP, ACL ELITE, ACL AcuStar and Premier are trademarks of Instrumentation Laboratory Company and/or one of its subsidiaries or parent companies, and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in other jurisdictions.  All other product names, company names, marks, logos, and symbols are trademarks of their respective owners. 

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