Each monitor offers providers a user-friendly view of their personal performance results compared to national benchmarks, benchmarks established by ACP, as well as peer comparators, and a custom analysis of their measure gaps. Linked opportunities to drive improvement and close performance gaps are available, which include population health and patient care management tools, targeted education, resources, and other evidence-based interventions from CECity's society, academic and quality improvement research partners.

"We are proud to have the opportunity to partner with athenahealth and ACP to enable this milestone in healthcare," said Simone Karp, chief business development officer and CECity co-founder. "This collaboration represents a giant leap forward towards realizing the true vision of meaningful use, which is leveraging information to improve patient care. Together, through the use of cloud-based platforms, we have made the secure exchange and reporting of clinical data simple. We have enabled performance measurement and national benchmarking as a seamless outcome of the practice workflow. And, most importantly, we are now able to engage health care professionals in patient safety and quality initiatives by transitioning the focus from measurement to improvement."

"ACP Genesis Registry will help physicians to satisfy meaningful use specialized registry requirements and improve patient care," said Michael S. Barr, MD, who leads ACP's Division of Medical Practice. "Participating practices will be able to easily transmit data from athenaClinicals, reducing the burden on physicians by eliminating the need for duplicate data entry and custom reporting."

Access to the ACP Genesis Registry, performance monitors, improvement resources, and social learning networks will be offered to participating athenahealth practices through CECity's MedConcert portal, the leading multi-tenant platform for performance improvement.

CECity and athenahealth plan to make additional quality reporting and improvement solutions available through the athenahealth marketplace in the near future, including solutions that may leverage the same data exchanged for meaningful use.