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CapMed Unveils Next Generation of Personal Health Management Suite at HIMSS Conference in New Orleans.


Conference Runs February 25 to March 1, 2007

Online Personal Health Record, Portable Personal HealthKey[TM], Desktop Personal Health Record

NEWTOWN, Pa. -- Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

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: BITI BITI Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. (stock symbol) ) announced today that CapMed, the cornerstone of its Personal Health Management Division, will be showcasing its next generation of personal health management solutions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2007 Annual Conference in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana. The conference begins February 25 and runs through March 1, 2007.

CapMed will be unveiling its new, complete suite of Personal Health Management tools written in .Net architecture to optimize rapid customization and deployment. CapMed now offers three interchangeable formats: the Personal Health Record (PHR PHR Personal Health Record
PHR Physicians for Human Rights
PHR Professional in Human Resources
PHR Public Health Reports
PHR Partnerships for Health Reform
Phr Phrygian (linguistics)
PHR Presse Hebdomadaire Régionale
) desktop software to optimize marketing outreach of personal health tools and services; the portable Personal HealthKey[TM], which uses USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
 flash technology for ubiquitous portability of health information, with new enhancements for security, privacy, and data protection; and the Online PHR which operates as a standalone or in conjunction with the desktop or portable formats, and facilitates patient-directed permissions for sharing all or part of the patient's record with providers, caregivers and others. CapMed will be highlighting the new capabilities and features of the PHR Suite at CapMed's booth, #1763, including the demonstration of importing data into PHR from several sources, including claims information, medical summaries, prescription data, home monitoring devices and other portable electronic devices, such as cellular phones.

CapMed will also be featured in IBM's booth, demonstrating the "Consumer Empowerment Use Case," with both IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and SureScripts, the nation's largest provider of electronic prescribing services, for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN NHIN Nationwide Health Information Network
NHIN National Health Information Network
). The NHIN demonstration, a prototype network built under the auspices of the US Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
Health and Human Services, HHS
 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC (Open Network Computing) A family of networking products from Sun for implementing distributed computing in a multivendor environment. Includes TCP/IP and OSI protocols, NFS distributed file system, NIS naming service and TI-RPC remote procedure call library. ), was designed to facilitate the secure sharing of information between hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and physicians. CapMed has established a means for patients to use the Personal HealthKey to register with the Network, have their identity authenticated au·then·ti·cate  
tr.v. au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing, au·then·ti·cates
To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar.
 and download medication history directly into their portable PHR, and has enabled the means to transfer information from the PHR to the Network for providers to access.

In addition, CapMed will be active in the IHE IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
IHE Institutions of Higher Education
IHE International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (historical acronym only, replaced by: IHE Delft, the Foundation) 
 Interoperability Showcase. Having participated in the rigorous certification process with over 300 vendors, CapMed will be the leading PHR-focused organization participating in the IHE Interoperability Showcase this year. CapMed will demonstrate interoperability utilizing IHE standards, which include HL-7 standards and the Continuity of Care Record. Throughout the Showcase, attendees will be able to create their own electronic health record and access it across multiple healthcare settings. The CapMed PHR will be the launching application for mock patients to begin accessing all other healthcare services. Interoperability highlights will include populating the PHR with lab results, radiology images, medical summaries, referrals, home monitoring device data and cardiology cardiology

Medical specialty dealing with heart diseases and disorders. It began with the 1749 publication by Jean Baptiste de Sénac of contemporary knowledge of the heart. Diagnostic methods improved in the 19th century, and in 1905 the electrocardiograph was invented.
 reports.

Wendy Angst, General Manager of CapMed, said, "We are especially excited about this year's HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society  Conference. The PHR industry is gaining momentum and we are looking forward to the opportunity to showcase our leadership in standard-based solutions that optimize consumer engagement."

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 600,000 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: the portable Personal HealthKey[TM], Personal Health Record CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
 and the Online PHR. 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[TM] 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 The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  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 Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 and the recent form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
.
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