The national healthcare group purchasing organization, Premier Healthcare Alliance, has renewed a 33-month group purchasing agreement with Masimo.

Under the agreement, Premier members can take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated for Masimo’s noninvasive products and solutions.

Masimo’s noninvasive products and solutions include Masimo SET pulse oximetry, rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry, rainbow Acoustic Monitoring, and Masimo Patient SafetyNet.

Based on contract which is effective from 1 June 2012 to 1 February 2015, Premier members along with ReSposable, Single Patient Use Adhesive, and Reusable sensors, can purchase Masimo Radical-7, Rad-87, and portable Rad-57 andPronto-7 rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximeters, and Masimo Patient SafetyNet.

Masimo sales, marketing and clinical research president Jon Coleman said, "We are happy Premier recognizes that blood transfusions represent a large cost in a hospital and has committed to providing its membership with access to Masimo rainbow SET platform that enables clinicians to noninvasively and continuously measure total hemoglobin, along with many other vital parameters, to help clinicians improve blood management and advance the standard of care."