DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

RNA Medical

Bio-Techne (formerly Bionostics) acquired RNA Medical in 1986. RNA Medical functions as Bio-Techne (formerly Bionostics) hospital direct sales distribution channel. This presents an effective alternative to our OEM customers for commercialization and distribution of quality control products.

The RNA product line includes daily QC materials, calibration verification and linearity products, Mylar®-wrapped glass capillary blood collection tubes, and other innovative products for point of care.

RNA offers a wide variety of QC materials for the laboratory. For daily QC, RNA offers aqueous, dye-based, and bovine blood-based products for use with blood gas, critical blood analyte, CO-Oximetry, and diabetes care instrumentation. Products for calibration verification and linearity include blood gas and critical blood analyte, CO-Oximetry, and POC glucose.

In addition to QC products, RNA recently introduced heparinized glass capillary collection tubes with a puncture-resistant Mylar® covering. Safe-Wrap Blood Collection Tubes reduce the risks associated with broken glass while utilizing the preferred collection material for capillary blood gas samples. Closure devices for the Safe-Wrap tubes are also available.

RNA provides cost effective quality products and services to hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide. RNA works continuously to meet and exceed customer needs and expectations.

PeerQC®

Bio-Techne (formerly Bionostics) offers interlaboratory peer statistics to our OEM customers to satisfy the requirement for peer statistics without the ongoing burden of software development, hardware support and other resources. The Bionostics PeerQC Service enables diagnostic customers to economically and transparently outsource real-time peer data processing over the web.

PeerQC enables quality control customers to review their results in comparison with a peer group. PeerQC is a simple to use patented web-based application with error prevention technology that provides instantaneous peer reports while preventing data transcription errors.

PeerQC also offers high-quality, paper-based summary and raw data (Levey-Jennings) processing to those customers who prefer not to utilize web-based submittal. This data is fully integrated with web-based data upon processing, so it is immediately included in the peer group and available for technical support purposes.