CapMed to Attend TEPR 2004 Conference.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers TEPR TEPR Toward an Electronic Patient Record Conference 2004 Booth #834 NEWTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2004 CapMed, a division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. ("Bio-Imaging") (NASDAQ/NMS:BITI BITI Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today announced that it will attend the TEPR 2004 Conference at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. Convention Center in Florida, May 17-21, 2004. CapMed's Personal Health Record software and Personal HealthKey(TM) will be exhibited and demonstrated at booth #834. CapMed will be participating in the Continuity of Care Record (CCR 1. CCR - condition code register. 2. CCR - (Database) concurrency control and recovery. ) Demonstration project. CapMed will be providing 500 Personal HealthKeys to attendees, who will then be able to receive the CCR via the USB port A USB socket on a computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged. See USB. , auto launch the CCR, and securely store and transport the CCR in the context of the CapMed Personal Health Record on the portable Personal HealthKey. The Personal HealthKey will enable the 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 the CCR between multiple electronic medical vendors, regardless of the underlying technology. Wendy Angst angst 1 n. A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression. angst 2 abbr. angstrom , General Manager of the CapMed Division said, "The Continuity of Care Record initiative is a significant effort to improve the communication of pertinent health information between providers. As the concept paper says, 'The CCR is being developed and enhanced in response to the need to organize and make transportable a set of basic patient information consisting of the most relevant and timely facts about a patient's condition.' The CapMed Personal HealthKey is specifically designed to meet that need, and, its ability to transport data between systems regardless of the software and hardware of those systems is a huge step in making the electronic health record a reality, and a useful one." Additionally, Wendy Angst, will be presenting on Patient-Held Solutions for Assisting with the Interoperability of Health Information on Friday, May 21, 2004 from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm. Angst said, "The Electronic Health Record and Personal Health Record are fast emerging markets. However, with the fragmented frag·ment n. 1. A small part broken off or detached. 2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. 3. health care system and mobile patients, many challenges still remain with the interoperability of these systems." She believes the patient is an untapped resource for aiding in the interoperability of the patient's health information across multiple domains. Angst will provide an overview of the issues surrounding interoperability, and provide a review of patient-held solutions available to immediately address this problem. Emphasis will be placed on USB-Flash Disk Technology. CapMed's 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 ) software and patent-pending Personal HealthKey offer affordable and secure personal healthcare solutions. The products support patient education, disease management and compliance through either stand-alone or web-enabled implementation. These products are cost-effective marketing vehicles for health systems. Visit the TEPR website at http://www.medrecinst.com/conferences/tepr/index.asp for further information. About Bio-Imaging 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 spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. 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 business offices in Massachusetts, the United Kingdom and Germany. 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. 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 timing of projects due to the variability in size, scope and duration of projects, estimates made by management with respect to the Company's 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 circumstances. |
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