Optimal Readings Selected to Present at CED’s 25th Annual Venture Conference

Optimal Readings Will Present as Life Science - Late Stage Company at Leading Southeast, Mid-Atlantic Venture Conference

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 15, 2008 – Optimal Reading Services Group, Inc., announced today that it has been selected as one of thirty-six companies to present at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s Spring Venture Conference.  

Scheduled for April 16-18, 2008, at Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, N.C., CED’s 25th Annual Venture Conference will showcase the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic’s top investment opportunities to hundreds of venture capitalists and financiers from throughout the United States.

Optimal Readings, a provider of optimization services for hospitals, imaging centers and radiology groups, will present as one of the conference’s late-stage companies, as part of the life science track.  

Optimal Readings provides a wide array of image interpretation services, technology consulting, physician recruiting, professional billing and a host of related ancillary services, all designed to optimize and improve the quality of radiology services in hospitals and radiology groups. Optimal features access to experienced radiologists for full and after-hours coverage, certified subspecialists, high-end medical image analysis technology and proven patient-centric quality methods.  For each of its customers, Optimal Readings provides a single source for radiology optimization, imaging and PACS solutions and integration knowledge. 

“This year’s Venture Conference promises to feature the most exciting investment opportunities in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions,” said conference co-chair Eric Linsley, partner, Pappas Ventures. “It offers access to an impressive pipeline of companies, from pre-seed to mezzanine rounds of funding, showcasing cutting-edge innovations in technology, life science and alternative energy.”

“We were extremely pleased when we received the invitation to present at this year’s CED conference,” said Craig Parker, Optimal's CEO. “On behalf of our entire team, I am eager to share the Optimal story with conference attendees.  Our market acceptance indicates a powerful set of unfilled needs in our sector and we are pleased for the opportunity to discuss our growth and the milestones we are pursuing in our long-term strategic plan.”

About Optimal Readings

Optimal Readings provides services to optimize and improve the quality of radiology services in hospitals and radiology groups.  Optimal Readings features access to experienced radiologists for full and after-hours coverage, certified subspecialists, high-end medical image analysis technology and proven patient-centric quality methods.  Through workload re-balancing and technologically-enhanced processes, Optimal Readings enables healthcare delivery organizations to interpret an increased volume of radiology studies with accelerated turnaround times and minimal operational costs.  Optimal Readings constructs tailor-made radiological interpretation services, integrates on- and off-site clinical staffs and implements a comprehensive system designed to maximize patient care in a cost-effective approach.  For each of its customers, Optimal Readings provides a single source for imaging and PACS advice, integration knowledge and radiology optimization.  For more information on Optimal Readings, visit www.optimalreadings.com. 

About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle, North Carolina and Southeast region. Since 2001, CED has helped triangle-area companies raise over $2.6 billion in venture capital. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. For more information, visit www.cednc.org.