Instrumentation Laboratory Receives Performance Award from Premier for Second Consecutive Year

- Based on Outstanding Quality and Compliance -

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 30th /PRNewswire/ -- Instrumentation Laboratory
(IL) today announced that it has received the prestigious Supplier
Performance Award from Premier, Inc. for a second consecutive year. The
award recognizes outstanding performance in quality and compliance by
Premier vendors, with less than nine percent chosen as award winners. IL
was presented with the honor at Premier's 2008 Annual Breakthrough
Conference and Exhibition in Nashville, TN, attended by over 3,000
healthcare professionals.

Premier, based in San Diego, CA, is a healthcare alliance serving more
than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 50,000 other healthcare sites. Premier
operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's
most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial
information.

"We are very proud to receive this distinction from Premier which is
illustrative of our ongoing commitment to and focus on enhancing quality in
diagnostic medicine," said Brian Durkin, Director of Sales and National
Accounts at IL. "Premier is focused on providing top quality patient care
in a cost-effective manner, making IL's GEM Premier 4000 analyzer an ideal
tool for their members."

IL and Premier have enjoyed a successful ten-year relationship, with a
multi-year contract for IL's critical care portfolio, including the new
GEM(R) Premier(TM) 4000 analyzer, the GEM Premier 3000 analyzer,
consumables and service.

Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and nearly 50,000 other
healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are
transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals,
Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the
nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial
information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation's largest
policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups.
A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic
improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's National
Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in San Diego,
Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia, and Washington. For
more information, visit http://www.premierinc.com.

Instrumentation Laboratory (http://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 new GEM Premier 4000 analyzer with Intelligent Quality
Management (iQM(R)), GEM Premier 3000 analyzer, GEM OPL(TM), a portable
whole blood CO-Oximeter and the GEM PCL Plus, a portable coagulation
analyzer. IL's hemostasis portfolio includes the ACL TOP(R) Family of
Hemostasis Testing Systems, fully automated, high- productivity analyzers,
including the ACL TOP and the new ACL TOP 500 CTS. IL also offers the ACL
ELITE(R) and ELITE PRO, other hemostasis analyzers and the HemosIL(R) line
of reagents. IL is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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