athenahealth, 
      Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business 
      services to physician practices, today announced that according to a new 
      KLAS report Ambulatory EMR: On Track for Meaningful Use?, athenaClinicalsSM, 
      the Company’s web-based electronic health record (EHR) service offering, 
      achieved 100% client confidence in its ability to enable them to meet 
      2011 Meaningful Use standards under the HITECH Act. For this report, 
      KLAS interviewed 1,458 providers about 26 EMR solutions in order to 
      determine EMRs’ ability to meet approaching 2011 meaningful use 
      requirements as set by the HIT Policy Committee. Confidence in these 
      solutions is a critical metric to EMR adoption as clients prepare for 
      reimbursement bonus eligibility and compliance issues.
    
“We feel the KLAS survey results of extremely high levels of confidence 
      from our national client base in athenahealth’s ability to allow them to 
      meet emerging meaningful use standards further supports and demonstrates 
      our differentiated business model as being truly aligned with clients’ 
      financial and clinical outcomes”
    
      The report, which was released January 6th, cites that 
      the high vote of client confidence in athenaClinicals builds off 
      athenahealth’s legacy and reputation for strong support and service with 
      its revenue cycle management platform, and illustrates appeal for a 
      results-based business model that is fully aligned with clients' 
      financial and clinical outcomes. Ahead of the new guidelines that would 
      hold providers accountable for their use of EMRs, in September 2009 
      athenahealth launched its Federal 
      Stimulus Bonus Payment Guarantee Program guaranteeing that 
      physicians who use its athenaClinicals service will receive a HITECH Act 
      bonus payment under the 2011 program year.
    
    
      As part of this bonus payment guarantee program, the Company’s Clinical 
      Intelligence Team (CIT) will work to deliver the maximum allowable 
      stimulus benefit to physicians by ensuring that both athenaCollectorSM 
      and athenaClinicals services are continuously updated and compliant with 
      all HITECH Act reporting requirements. To learn more about 
      athenahealth’s EHR and the new federal bonus guarantee program please 
      visit: www.athenahealth.com/bonus.
    
    
      “We feel the KLAS survey results of extremely high levels of confidence 
      from our national client base in athenahealth’s ability to allow them to 
      meet emerging meaningful use standards further supports and demonstrates 
      our differentiated business model as being truly aligned with clients’ 
      financial and clinical outcomes,” said Rob Cosinuke, athenahealth’s 
      Chief Marketing Officer. “The overarching benefit of our unique 
      software-enabled service (SeS) model is that we take on the work of 
      getting physicians enrolled and qualified for new programs like the 
      HITECH Act, and at no additional charge, we update our national network 
      daily with new clinical rules and requirements for physicians, whether 
      from the government or commercial payers.”