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March 3, 2008 - HeartIT announces five new U.S. WebPAX installations. Press Release

January 30, 2008 - HeartIT completes first cardiology-wide WebPAX installation in Europe. Press Release

November 16, 2007 - HeartIT rolls out new electronic submission system for multicenter clinical trials. Press Release

July 16, 2007 - HeartIT announces medical images can be viewed on Apple's new iPhone. Press Release

June 18, 2007 - HeartIT launches WebPAX VS, a secure remote PACS system.
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March 1, 2007 - Join HeartIT at the ACC conference in New Orleans, LA Mar. 24-27 2007 for a live WebPAX^® demonstration at booth 2165.

January 8, 2007 - Join HeartIT at the SCMR in Rome, Italy Feb. 2-4 2007 for a live WebPAX^® demonstration, booth 9.

November 20, 2006 - Apple Computer talks with Virginia Commonwealth University about their WebPAX installation.
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September 10, 2006 - Join HeartIT at the RSNA in Chicago, Illinois Nov. 26-30 2006 for a live WebPAX^® demonstration, booth 5355.

September 8, 2006 - Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, (HeartIT) announced today that it had successfully installed a hospital-wide WebPAX^® system at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital at Ohio State University’s main campus in Columbus, OH.
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March 22, 2006 - Heart Imaging Technologies had an overall revenue increase for fiscal/calendar year 2005 of 428% compared to 2004.
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August 23, 2005 - The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued HeartIT's December 2000 patent describing the overall process of converting DICOM images to web browser format.
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June 15, 2005 - The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues 510(k) clearance for Heart Imaging Technologies' WebPAX^® medical image management system.
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May 20, 2005 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards Heart Imaging Technologies a 5 year, $2.2 million grant to construct a world-wide network of dynamic cardiac images.
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Durham, NC, March 3, 2008

HeartIT announces five new U.S. WebPAX installations

Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) today announced five additional WebPAX installations in the U.S. The new sites are Cornell University in New York City, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, the Alaska Heart Institute in Anchorage, AK, the Care Group in Indianapolis, IN, and the University of Miami in Miami, FL.

"Each of these sites incorporate the latest version of HeartIT's WebPAX software, still the only 100% client-free PACS on the market", said Robert Judd, President of HeartIT. "Our customers tell us that a major factor in their decision to purchase WebPAX is the reduction in IT costs associated with the fact that WebPAX does not require any client software".

"At one of our existing WebPAX installations images are accessed from over 1000 different computers each month, underscoring that even now many institutions still have a huge unmet demand for access to images across an entire health system", said Brent Reed, Director of Software Development. "Customers are beginning to realize that even if our competitors' client software were free, it would take at least an hour to configure each PC meaning that providing access from 1000 different locations would require that one full time IT staff member spend 6 months just to install the client software. And that doesn't even account for the inevitable problems which accompany software upgrades".

Heart Imaging Technologies' headquarters are located near North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Formed in 2000, HeartIT provides web-based medical image management services and computing systems to regional health care systems, large hospitals and private clinics as well as drug and device companies sponsoring multi-center clinical trials. Worldwide, HeartIT's systems currently provide secure web browser access to over 100 million medical images.

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Durham, NC, January 30, 2008

HeartIT completes first cardiology-wide WebPAX installation in Europe

Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) announced today that it has completed installation of its first cardiology-wide WebPAX system at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany. The system manages all images from cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, cardiovascular MRI, and cardiac CT.

"HeartIT has had smaller installations supporting research applications in Europe for a number of years now.", said Robert Judd, President of HeartIT. "We've also had cardiology-wide systems in the U.S., but this is our first large-scale clinical installation in Europe".

"In addition to making cardiology images available throughout the hospital via a web browser, the system also allows outside hospitals to upload cath images corresponding to patients being sent to Robert Bosch for more advanced procedures like cardiac surgery", said Brent Reed, Director of Software Development. "Being able to quickly and conveniently view diagnostic images from a referring medical center was of great interest to physicians at Robert Bosch".

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Durham, NC, November 16, 2007

HeartIT rolls out new electronic submission system for multicenter clinical trials

Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) announced the availability of a new electronic image submission system for multicenter clinical trials. The system allows clinical trials sites to electronically upload images to a central web server for simultaneous viewing by the corelab and sites. Access is secure and is controlled to ensure that, for example, one site cannot view images submitted by a second site.

”Even today, the majority of clinical trials still send CDs via express mail to the core lab”, said Robert Judd, President of HeartIT. ”This system not only eliminates that step, but also forces the sites to choose from a computer-generated list of patient IDs which are then burned into the raw DICOM data. This means that the data arrive at the core lab without the confusion often created by mislabeled CDs”.

”Having the images available for viewing on a secure web site allows the site and corelab to log in simultaneously and discuss quality control issues”, said Brent Reed, Director of Software Development. ”With CDs problems like missing views are often difficult to communicate since, unlike with secure web server access, physically mailing the CD precludes the site and corelab from viewing the submitted data simultaneously. Perhaps even more importantly, the sponsor can also log in and view realtime status of all image uploads across the entire trial”.

HeartIT's electronic submission system builds on its existing WebPAX product currently in use at major medical centers in the U.S. and in Europe. Worldwide, HeartIT's systems currently provide secure web browser access to over 100 million medical images.

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Durham, NC, July, 16 2007

iPhone Browses Diagnostic Heart Images

Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) announced today that medical images can be viewed on Apple’s new iPhone. (See examples at http://www.heartit.com.) Physicians can simply click on a web link sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their password, and, for example, instantly view movies of a patient’s beating heart halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously browsing through the imaging results.

Viewing medical images traditionally requires dedicated workstations costing tens of thousands of dollars, which in turn are connected to proprietary picture archiving communications and storage (PACS) systems costing millions of dollars more. In order to view medical images, physicians must literally drive or walk to one of these workstations. Recent advances in World Wide Web browser technologies and the web sites that utilize their rich features, collectively referred to as Web 2.0, are challenging these expensive and cumbersome proprietary approaches.

Medical images displayed in a web browser have traditionally been of lower quality and therefore had limited diagnostic utility. This technology is the first to provide physicians with the ability to drill-down and view medical images, including movies, on a hand-held device.

“Patient privacy is obviously a critically-important issue on the internet,” said Brent Reed, HeartIT’s Director of Software Development. “Fortunately, medical privacy concerns can be addressed using the same encryption technologies employed by online banking and credit card transactions.”

Heart Imaging Technologies' headquarters are located near North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Formed in 2000, HeartIT provides web-based medical image management services and computing systems to regional health care systems, large hospitals and private clinics as well as drug and device companies sponsoring multi-center clinical trials. Worldwide, HeartIT’s systems currently provide secure web browser access to over 50 million medical images.

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Durham, NC, September 8, 2006.

Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, (HeartIT) announces that it has successfully installed a hospital-wide WebPAX system at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital at Ohio State University’s main campus in Columbus, OH.

"This system manages all cardiac imaging modalities for the entire hospital, including x-ray coronary angiography, echocardiography, MRI, CT, and SPECT”, said Brent Reed, Director of Software Development at HeartIT. "The system also provides direct access to images stored on WebPAX from within the hospital’s central electronic medical record system, meaning that physicians on the floor can see the images within minutes of scan completion using nothing but a web browser. Perhaps most interestingly, Ross Hospital already owned several PACS manufactured by other major vendors yet chose to switch to WebPAX. In part this change was motivated by the fact that WebPAX has considerable advantages over all other PACS for the latest cardiac modalities, MR and CT”.

HeartIT offers an alternative approach to the traditional DICOM-based PACS designs and provides improved performance at significantly lower costs. More importantly, the use of World Wide Web technologies opens the door to single-mouse-click access to all medical images by anyone with a laptop and an internet connection, including remotely-located physicians and patients themselves.

For more information about Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, please visit HeartIT's web site located at www.heartit.com.

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Durham, NC, March 22, 2006.

Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, (HeartIT) announced today that overall revenue for fiscal/calendar year 2005 increased by 428% compared to 2004.

"HeartIT has experienced double and even triple-digit growth every year since it was founded in 2000", said Burton Judd, Chief Fincancial Officer. According to Robert M. Judd, Ph.D., President of HeartIT, "This strong and steady growth underscores the solidity of the company. Particularly in light of HeartIT's portfolio of intellectual property in the fields of medical image management and electronic medical records (EMR), HeartIT's consistently strong financial performance further emphasizes our role in this rapidly- evolving market ".

Medical image management generally relates to the process of viewing, storing, and retrieving digital medical images such as those from x- ray angiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and magnetic resonance imaging. Traditionally, these tasks have been achieved by the use of DICOM-based picture archive communications and storage (PACS) devices which typically cost millions of dollars. World wide web technologies such as html and http represent an alternative approach to the traditional DICOM-based PACS designs, and offer similar performance at significantly lower costs. Perhaps more importantly, however, the use of world wide web technologies opens the door to single-mouse- click access to all medical images by anyone with a laptop and an internet connection, including remotely-located physicians and patients themselves.

Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, was formed in May of 2000 by Robert M. Judd, Ph.D., and Raymond J. Kim, MD. Drs. Judd and Kim have worked together for over 10 years and are recognized leaders in the field of cardiovascular imaging. For more information please visit HeartIT's web site located at www.heartit.com.

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Durham, NC, August 23, 2005.

Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, (HeartIT) received official notice today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first of HeartIT's pending U.S. patents. Originally filed in December of 2000, the issued patent describes the overall process of converting medical images from the industry-standard DICOM format to a format compatible with internet web browsers, such as Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

"HeartIT realized many years ago that while the DICOM format was a fundamentally important contribution to the field of medical imaging, the only practical solution to the medical image management problem was to harness the power of the internet", said Robert M. Judd, Ph.D., President of HeartIT. "This is a major milestone for us, and lays the foundation for HeartIT to actively defend its intellectual property rights in this area", said Raymond J. Kim, MD, CEO of HeartIT. "Perhaps more importantly, however, combined with our other pending patents the issuance of this parent patent provides the protection we need to justify signficant additional investments in software development for our web-based PACS products such as WebPAX ".

Medical image management generally relates to the process of viewing, storing, and retrieving digital medical images such as those from x-ray angiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and magnetic resonance imaging. Traditionally, these tasks have been achieved by the use of DICOM-based picture archive communications and storage (PACS) devices which typically cost millions of dollars. World wide web technologies such as html and http represent an alternative approach to the traditional DICOM-based PACS designs, and offer similar performance at significantly lower costs. Perhaps more importantly, however, the use of world wide web technologies opens the door to single-mouse-click access to all medical images by anyone with a laptop and an internet connection, including remotely-located physicians and patients themselves.

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Durham, NC, June 15, 2005.

Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, (HeartIT) received official notice today that the United States Food and Drug Administration has issued 510(k) approval for HeartIT's WebPAX Image Management System.

"WebPAX was originally designed as a DICOM communication and storage device which also provided web access to the images, but our customers wanted the ability to make geometric measurements on the web images as well. This 510(k) clearance will allow us to provide this enhanced functionality.", said Robert M. Judd, Ph.D., President of HeartIT.

Medical image management generally relates to the process of viewing, storing, and retrieving digital medical images such as those from x-ray angiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and magnetic resonance imaging. Traditionally, these tasks have been achieved by the use of DICOM-based picture archive communications and storage (PACS) devices which typically cost millions of dollars. World wide web technologies such as html and http represent an alternative approach to the traditional DICOM-based PACS designs, and offer similar performance at significantly lower costs. Perhaps more importantly, however, the use of world wide web technologies opens the door to single-mouse-click access to all medical images by anyone with a laptop and an internet connection, including remotely-located physicians and patients themselves.

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Durham, NC, May 20, 2005.

Heart Imaging Technologies, LLC, (HeartIT) received official notice today that the National Institutes of Health will fund HeartIT's 5 year, $2.2 million grant to create a worldwide network of dynamic cardiac images.

"Everything we do at HeartIT is based on world wide web standards.", said Robert M. Judd, Ph.D., President of HeartIT. "The next logical step was to connect existing and future HeartIT systems located around the U.S. and around the world into a larger web-based network such that physicians, medical researchers, and patients themselves can access any or all of these images using nothing but a web browser".

Medical image management generally relates to the process of viewing, storing, and retrieving digital medical images such as those from x-ray angiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and magnetic resonance imaging. Traditionally, these tasks have been achieved by the use of DICOM-based picture archive communications and storage (PACS) devices which typically cost millions of dollars. World wide web technologies such as html and http represent an alternative approach to the traditional DICOM-based PACS designs, and offer similar performance at significantly lower costs. Perhaps more importantly, however, the use of world wide web technologies opens the door to single-mouse-click access to all medical images by anyone with a laptop and an internet connection, including remotely-located physicians and patients themselves.