January 8, 2010
athenaClinicals Achieves 100% Client Confidence in Meeting 2011 Meaningful Use Standards in KLAS Report of Ambulatory EMRs

WATERTOWN, Mass., Jan 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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?, athenaClinicals^SM, 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.

The report, which was released January 6^th,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 athenaCollector^SM 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."

For additional information regarding this report, please visit the KLAS Web site at, www.KLASresearch.com, or contact KLAS at 800-920-4109.

About KLAS

KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS's mission is to improve delivery, by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of our healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors, and vendors. Working together with executives from over 4,500 hospitals and over 2,500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends, and statistics, which provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services, and medical equipment vendors. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email marketing@KLASresearch.com, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative.

About athenahealth

athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices. athenahealth's service offerings are based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic health record (EHR) software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base, integrated back-office service operations, and automated and live patient communication services. For more information visit www.athenahealth.com or call (888) 652-8200.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the anticipated benefits of athenahealth's service offerings. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things: the risk that our service offerings will not operate in the manner that we expect due to design flaws, security breaches, or otherwise; potential interruptions or delays in our internet-based services offerings; our reliance upon third parties, such as computer hardware, software, data-hosting, and internet infrastructure providers, which reliance may result in failures or disruptions in our service offerings; errors or omissions included in our payer and clinical intelligence rules engine and database; and the evolving and complex government regulatory compliance environment in which we and our clients operate. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. athenahealth, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events, or circumstances or otherwise. For additional disclosure regarding these and other risks faced by athenahealth, Inc., see the disclosure contained in our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available on the Investors section of our website at http://www.athenahealth.com and on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.

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