If our hospital “aims” to meet Meaningful Use in one quarter, but we don’t succeed, can our facility attest in a different quarter?

Yes, attestation does not occur on the CMS website until your attestation period has been completed. Therefore, if you do not meet your numbers in one quarter, you can defer to another quarter. However, if you are to meet Meaningful Use in Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2014, this must be accomplished the last quarter of the Federal Fiscal Year: July 1 - Sept. 30, 2014.