Broadlane Selects Bayer Diagnostics to Provide Blood Gas Systems.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2003 Broadlane Inc., the leading provider of innovative business services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has signed a seven-year agreement with the Diagnostics Division of Bayer HealthCare LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a member of the Bayer Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BAY), to provide Broadlane's customers with a full line of blood gas products. Broadlane expects its customers to purchase more than $100 million in blood gas products over the course of the seven-year agreement, which goes into effect on Dec. 1, 2003. "Through extensive clinical input, Broadlane's steering committee steer·ing committee n. A committee that sets agendas and schedules of business, as for a legislative body or other assemblage. steering committee Noun selected Bayer Diagnostics' blood gas systems," said Michael Berryhill, head of Broadlane's laboratory contracting services group. "Our contract with Bayer will deliver the highest quality product at the best possible price." Bayer Diagnostics will provide its full blood gas product portfolio including the Rapidpoint(R) and Rapidlab(R) analyzers and a broad menu of assays, consumables and services to Broadlane's customer base of more than 540 acute care hospitals. This agreement adds to the existing immunoassay Immunoassay An assay that quantifies antigen or antibody by immunochemical means. The antigen can be a relatively simple substance such as a drug, or a complex one such as a protein or a virus. product line contract that Bayer Diagnostics provides to hospitals through Broadlane. The Rapidpoint(R) 400/405 and Rapidlab(R) 800 analyzers and Rapidlink(TM) Information Management System represent Bayer's portfolio of critical care blood systems. The Rapidpoint 400/405 is a self-contained measurement cartridge-based blood gas system with maintenance-free operation. The system can record results on all analytes within 60 seconds, the fastest response of any blood gas system on the market. The Rapidlab 800 series is designed to meet the high-volume demands of today's laboratory with a flexible, modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities. . This upgradeable platform eliminates the need to purchase new systems. The Rapidpoint 400/405 and Rapidlab 800 analyzers can be interfaced directly with the Rapidlink system so that all information can be managed electronically, eliminating time-consuming paperwork and making regulatory compliance easier. "Today's announcement strengthens our position in bringing our robust blood gas product portfolio to a customer base that will benefit from innovative, high-quality products and world-class service," said Joe Wilson, vice president of sales and marketing, corporate accounts of Bayer HealthCare. "We share the commitment of Broadlane and its customers to excellence and quality patient care, and we are honored to be awarded this significant contract." About Bayer Diagnostics With approximately 7,000 employees worldwide and 2002 sales of $1.9 billion, Bayer Diagnostics (www.bayerdiag.com), based in Tarrytown, New York Tarrytown is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 11,090 at the 2000 census. The Village of Tarrytown is located in the northwest part of the Town of Greenburgh, New York. , is one of the largest diagnostic businesses in the world. The organization supports customers in 100 countries through an extensive portfolio of central, self-testing, nucleic acid nucleic acid, any of a group of organic substances found in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that play a central role in the storage and replication of hereditary information and in the expression of this information through protein synthesis. and near patient care diagnostics systems and services for use in the assessment and management of health, including the areas of cardiovascular and kidney disease Kidney Disease Definition Kidney disease is a general term for any damage that reduces the functioning of the kidney. Kidney disease is also called renal disease. , oncology, virology virology, study of viruses and their role in disease. Many viruses, such as animal RNA viruses and viruses that infect bacteria, or bacteriophages, have become useful laboratory tools in genetic studies and in work on the cellular metabolic control of gene expression , women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. and diabetes. Bayer Diagnostics' global headquarters in the United States operates as part of Bayer HealthCare LLC, a member of the worldwide Bayer HealthCare group. About Bayer HealthCare Bayer HealthCare, a subgroup of Bayer AG with annual sales amounting to some 10 billion Euro, is one of the world's leading innovative companies in the healthcare and medical products industry. Bayer HealthCare combines the global activities of the animal health, biological products, consumer care, diagnostics and pharmaceuticals divisions. More than 34,000 employees work for Bayer HealthCare worldwide. Our work at Bayer HealthCare is to discover and manufacture innovative products for the purpose of improving human and animal health worldwide. Our products enhance well-being and quality of life by diagnosing, preventing and treating disease. About Broadlane Broadlane is a leader in delivering innovative business services to the healthcare industry, allowing hospitals and healthcare providers to improve business process performance and reduce operational costs while maintaining or enhancing patient care and clinician satisfaction. Broadlane focuses on a growing list of business operations areas that includes supply chain, labor sourcing and management. Its solutions combine advanced technology with business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , strategic sourcing, and clinical and operational consulting. Broadlane customers include leading healthcare providers such as Advocate Health Care, Brooklyn Hospital Center, CHRISTUS Health, Community Health Systems, Continuum Health Partners, Kaiser Permanente, Kindred Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, 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 , US Oncology, William Beaumont Hospitals and others. Broadlane counts among its customers 540 acute care hospitals, more than 1,735 sub-acute care facilities and thousands of physician practices. Broadlane has offices in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.; Cincinnati; Dallas; and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . For more information, visit www.broadlane.com. |
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