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CapMed Awarded First Honors for Personal Health Record Systems at 2007 TEPR Awards

Posted on: Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 09:00 CDT

CapMed, a division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BITI), a leader in Personal Health Management Solutions, announced today that it received the first-place award in the Personal Health Record Systems category at the Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference. The annual event, which was held in Dallas this week, recognized 19 outstanding healthcare information system solutions in seven categories. Medical Records Institute (MRI), a Boston-based health IT conference organizer, presents the TEPR conference each year.

Wendy Angst, general manager of CapMed, said, "Winning this recognition at the TEPR conference is very gratifying as the judges on the panel are the leading individuals in the industry. Winning for the second consecutive year is a tribute to our success in incorporating new developments into our products. We are proud to be recognized in this way."

The TEPR awards selection process has two parts. Part I took place during over the course of the past month when a panel of independent judges reviewed the TEPR Award applications, scored each entry, and selected the top three finalists for each category. Part II took place on Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20 when the finalists presented/demonstrated their solutions to the judges. First, Second and Third Honors were then determined in each category. The TEPR Award honorees were officially recognized and announced at the TEPR Opening Session.

About TEPR 2007

Now in its 23rd year, TEPR is widely considered to provide the industry's strongest educational content for health IT professionals in all stages of Electronic Health Records selection, implementation, and integration with other systems. This is an ideal forum for industry leaders who are looking at healthcare IT challenges in new ways and seek to propel excellence in healthcare IT among peers. www.tepr.com.

TEPR 2008 will be held May 17-21, 2008 at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

About Medical Records Institute, Inc.

Medical Records Institute's (MRI) mission is to promote and enhance the journey towards electronic medical records, e-health, mobile health, and related applications of information technology (IT). MRI does this by serving as an international forum for sharing knowledge, experience, and solutions with the healthcare community at large, but especially with healthcare practitioners, as well as professionals in health information technology (HIT) and health information management (HIM).

CapMed, A division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc., is the cornerstone of Bio-Imaging's Personal Health Management Division. CapMed is the leading provider of patient outreach solutions for hospitals and healthcare systems, providers' offices, managed care organizations, and pharmaceutical companies, with more than 700,000 distributed to date. These solutions enable patients to monitor and manage their health and to improve communications with care providers, ultimately improving outcomes and reducing costs of care and are available in three formats: CapMed's Online PHR, the portable Personal HealthKey™, and the desktop-based Personal Health Record CD-ROM. CapMed offers custom development to organizations who want to add unique or proprietary capabilities to the platform. For more information on the CapMed Personal Health Management Solutions, please visit www.CapMed.com or the consumer website, www.CapMedPHR.com.

Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. is a healthcare contract service organization providing services that support the product development process of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company has specialized in assisting its clients in the design and management of the medical-imaging component of clinical trials since 1990. Bio-Imaging serves its clients on a global basis through its US Core Lab in Newtown, PA, its European Core Lab in Leiden, The Netherlands and its recent acquisition of Theralys SA in Lyon, France. Through its CapMed division, Bio-Imaging provides the Personal HealthKey™ technology and the Personal Health Record (PHR) software allowing patients to better monitor and manage their health care information. Copies of Bio-Imaging Technologies' press releases and other information may be obtained through Bio-Imaging's web site at www.bioimaging.com.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking statements" intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In particular, the Company's statements regarding trends in the marketplace and potential future results are examples of such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the consummation and the successful integration of current and proposed acquisitions, the timing of projects due to the variability in size, scope and duration of projects, estimates made by management with respect to the Company's financial results, backlog, critical accounting policies, regulatory delays, clinical study results which lead to reductions or cancellations of projects and other factors, including general economic conditions and regulatory developments, not within the Company's control. The factors discussed herein and expressed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission could cause actual results and developments to be materially different from those expressed in or implied by such statements. The forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstance. You should review the Company's filings, especially risk factors contained in the Form 10-K and the recent form 10-Q.

Source: Business Wire

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