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PharMerica is a Fortune 1000 company formed in January 2007 from the merger of Kindred Healthcare's pharmacy business with a subsidiary of AmerisourceBergen. [1] The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and operates a major customer support center in Tampa, Florida. [2]
Kindred Hospital - San Francisco Bay Area in San Leandro, California operated by Kindred Healthcare. Kindred was founded in 1985 as Vencor, Inc. The name Kindred Healthcare was adopted on April 20, 2001, following Vencor's emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Kindred went public in 2001 on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol KND. [5] [6]
E-prescribing allows for increased access to the patient's medical records and their medication history. Having access to this information from all health care providers at the time of prescribing can support alerts related to drug inappropriateness, in combination with other medications or with specific medical issues at hand.
Gentiva Health Services is a provider of home health care, hospice, and related health services in the United States.The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.Prior to its October 2014 acquisition by Kindred Healthcare, it was a Fortune 1000 company with over $1.7 billion in annual revenue and a member of the S&P 600 index.
The paperless world was a publicist's slogan, intended to describe the office of the future. It was facilitated by the popularization of video display computer terminals like the 1964 IBM 2260 . An early prediction of the paperless office was made in a 1975 Business Week article. [ 1 ]
In the health insurance and the health care industries, FFS occurs if doctors and other health care providers receive a fee for each service such as an office visit, test, procedure, or other health care service. [5] Payments are issued only after the services are provided. FFS is potentially inflationary by raising health care costs. [6]
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems. It was founded in 1961 as the Hospital Management Systems Society.
TriNet was founded in 1988 by entrepreneur Martin Babinec in San Leandro, California.Babinec led TriNet through several acquisitions of smaller professional employer organizations, including Boston-based HR Logic Holdings, [7] John Parry & Alexander and the Outsource Group of Walnut Creek, Calif.; E3 Group of Dallas; and Boston-based HR Logic Holdings.