Broadlane Awards Contract to Spacelabs Medical.Business Editors, Health/Medical Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BW HealthWire)--June 27, 2001 Spacelabs Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq:SLMD SLMD Subscriber Line Module Digital ) announced today a three-year contract award from Broadlane Inc., a leader in delivering supply chain services to the healthcare industry. The contract includes the full line of Spacelabs patient monitoring and clinical information systems products and the 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, n measurement of a patient's blood pressure at regular intervals while the patient carries out daily activities. (ABPM ABPM Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring ABPM American Board of Preventive Medicine ABPM American Board of Pain Medicine ABPM Association of Briefing Program Managers ABPM Allergic Bronchopulmonary Mycosis ) services provided by the Spacelabs Medical Data division. With the ABPM service, clinicians can now easily offer this valuable and proven technology to their patients. "We are very pleased to have received this contract award from Broadlane," said Lynn Conaway, Spacelabs vice president of corporate accounts. "This agreement makes it possible for Spacelabs to provide a comprehensive offering to Broadlane's customers. We have a large installed base of products in their member hospitals and believe that our strong relationship with these members was instrumental in our winning this contract." About Broadlane Through an extensive suite of services, Broadlane delivers integrated supply chain management solutions to the healthcare industry. Those services include group purchasing, procurement strategy, and outsourcing and e-commerce services. Among the companies that focus on improving efficiencies within the healthcare supply chain, only Broadlane offers this full array of services. Broadlane customers include leading healthcare providers such as Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :THC THC tetrahydrocannabinol. THC n. Tetrahydrocannabinol; a compound that is obtained from cannabis or is made synthetically; it is the primary intoxicant in marijuana and hashish. ), Universal Health Services Universal Health Services, Inc. NYSE: UHS is a Fortune 500 company based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This company is one of the nation's largest health care management companies, operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers (NYSE:UHS UHS University Health Services UHS Universal Hint System (gamingy) UHS University High School UHS Urbana High School UHS University High School (Australia) UHS Union High School ), Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH), the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, IASIS Healthcare, Continuum Health Partners, Brim Healthcare and others. Broadlane counts among its customers 572 acute care hospitals and 2,335 sub-acute healthcare facilities. Broadlane has offices in San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX. For more information visit www.broadlane.com. About Spacelabs Spacelabs is a leading provider of integrated healthcare information systems and instrumentation with a strategic focus on wireless, telemedicine and Internet solutions for healthcare. For more information visit www.spacelabs.com. (c)Spacelabs Medical, Inc. 2001 |
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