The following is a list of basic terms you will need to know as you navigate the EHR market: 1  Certification - This relates to a national effort to certify various requirements for EHR software. 2  Electronic Health Record (EHR) - This term refers to computer software that physicians use to track all aspects of patient care.
PharMerica is a publicly traded Fortune 1000 company formed in January 2007 from the merger of Kindred Healthcare's pharmacy business with a subsidiary of AmerisourceBergen. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and operates a major customer support center in Tampa, Florida.
A publicly traded company is one which has shares of stock traded on the open market. 1  Private companies, on the other hand, do not have shares available for public purchase. Private companies may be owned by an individual, a family, a partnership, employees, or a small group of investors. To illustrate the difference, consider Hershey and Mars, two of the largest candy companies in the world. The late Milton Hersheyâs chocolate business is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.