Cloud-based electronic health record vendor athenahealth has announced updates compliant with meaningful use stage 2 requirements will be pushed out this month, giving current customers the ability to attest to stage 2 in the first quarter of 2014.
"Across the industry there's a near 20 percent provider dropout rate from the meaningful use program. Many of the folks dropping out earned $18,000 in 2011, but were unable to sustain performance for the full year, and therefore didn't earn the $12,000 second incentive in 2012," said Todd Rothenhaus, MD, CMIO of athenahealth in the release, citing attestation data recently released by CMS.
"At athenahealth, we blow the industry's low attestation numbers out of the water. Ninety-six percent of our participating providers successfully attested for 2012. 2014 is a huge year for the industry. Change is palpable and unrelenting, and we're committed to making meaningful use attestation and the transition to ICD-10 just happen, in a totally unencumbered way," he said.
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