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BIO-IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES TO ATTEND HIMSS CONFERENCE

NEWTOWN, PA, February 17, 2004 -- Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. (“Bio-Imaging”) (NASDAQ/NMS: BITI) today announced that its CapMed Division, the cornerstone of Bio-Imaging’s new Personal Health Management Division, will attend the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2004 Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, February 22-26.

The newly acquired CapMed division’s main products, the Personal Health Record (“PHR”) software and the Personal HealthKey™, will be exhibited and demonstrated at booth 5718. Mark Weinstein, President and CEO of Bio-Imaging and Wendy Angst, General Manager of the new Personal Health Management Division of Bio-Imaging, are scheduled to attend the entire conference.

The PHR is an award-winning, cost-efficient software application that enables users to manage and store personal health information, including their medical images, on the privacy of his/her desktop computer, while linking directly to sponsor-directed resources such as drug information, patient education, or disease guidelines. This award-winning program is an industry leader with more than 375,000 distributed.

The Personal HealthKey® fits on a key chain and is a simple, reliable, secure and cost-effective portable solution for people to easily take specific health reports or their entire medical record anywhere. The HealthKey® plugs into a computer’s USB port, allowing doctors and patients easy access to the patient’s medical record without the need for additional hardware or software, and it is password protected.

For further information on the HIMSS conference, visit the HIMSS website.

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 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 (Newtown PA), European Core Lab (Leiden, The Netherlands) and U.S. Business Offices (Massachusetts and California). Through its recently acquired 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.

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