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CapMed and StayWell Health Management Offer PHR/Wellness Program Presentations at AHIP 2008.


CapMed showcases interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other.  of its 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
 with StayWell's health assessment and disease management programs

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

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: BITI BITI Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. (stock symbol) ) and a leader in interactive personal health management solutions, announced today that it will be hosting two presentations at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP AHIP America’s Health Insurance Plans
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) conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA. The presentations, led by Wendy Angst angst 1
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, General Manager of CapMed and Michael Staufacker, Director of Program Development for StayWell Health Management, are scheduled for June 19th at 1-2 and again at 3-4 p.m. With limited seating available, interested parties are encouraged to email CapMed at info@capmed.com to reserve a place.

As the demand for improved healthcare heightens, wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular throughout the country. According to according to
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 Working Well: A Global Survey of Health Promotion and Workplace Wellness The workplace wellness program is offered by some employers as a combination of educational, organizational, and environmental activities designed to support behavior conducive to the health of employees in a business and their families.  Strategies, released in October 2007, 86 percent of U.S. employers surveyed offer wellness programs. The top strategic objective for offering wellness programs is to drive down health care costs.

"CapMed's partnership with StayWell Health Management is just one of the many ways we enable consumers to become stronger advocates for their own health," Angst said. "Combining CapMed's award winning PHR with StayWell's health assessment and disease management programs, provide powerful means for health plans to work with their members to increase member involvement and ultimately to lower medical costs."

Combining wellness programs with CapMed's comprehensive and interoperable PHR is a natural partnership that brings great value to the consumer. Through CapMed's PHR, users can track and manage all facets of personal health and wellness information from home and from work or while in transit at any time of the day or night. Consumers can link to individually-relevant patient education information and receive important alerts and reminders, supporting CapMed's goal of making health information personal, understandable and actionable. Additionally, consumers as well as their family members can take advantage of multiple tools and features to manage their health information. For example, users can access a drug interaction checker check·er  
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a. One, such as an inspector or examiner, that checks.

b. One that receives items for temporary safekeeping or for shipment: a baggage checker.

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, import data from remote healthcare monitoring devices, and even authorize providers, family members and caregivers to view all or part of the data within their PHR.

CapMed will showcase the integrated offering with StayWell during the AHIP conference in Room B on the exhibit floor.

About CapMed

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 personal health management solutions for hospitals and health systems, providers, managed care, employers 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 multiple formats: onlinePHR, icePHR, icePHR Mobile, desktopPHR, and the Personal HealthKey. 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.

About Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc.

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 Core Labs in Newtown, PA, and Leiden, The Netherlands, along with business offices in PA, MA, The Netherlands, Germany and France. Phoenix Data Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Bio-Imaging Technologies, is a leading global clinical data services provider of electronic data capture (EDC EDC

See: Export Development Corp.
) services and a comprehensive array of broadly interoperable eClinical data solutions to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Phoenix Data Systems delivers full service EDC, a unique combination of electronic data capture, interactive voice response, reporting, and data management solutions. Through its CapMed Personal Health Management Suite, Bio-Imaging provides its Personal HealthKey* technology, the Personal Health Record (PHR) software, and CapMed Patient Portal allowing patients to better monitor and manage their health care information. Additional information about Bio-Imaging is available at www.bioimaging.com.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
" intended to qualify for the safe harbors Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
 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 and guidance 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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