Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment Information

Historically, the Company was organized as one segment. Beginning in 2010, the Company organized its operations into two operating segments: Subscriptions and Interactive Services, and Electronic Health Records. On February 24, 2012, the Board of Directors of Epocrates approved the discontinuation of Epocrates' EHR product. In connection with this decision, Epocrates recorded an impairment charge of approximately $8.5 million in its fourth quarter of 2011, which represented the write-down of the carrying value of the goodwill, intangible and other long-lived assets related to the EHR product to their estimated fair value of zero. This charge, along with the results for the EHR business, are now recorded in loss from discontinued operations, net of tax, in the Company's consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, and prior period results have been revised to conform to the current period presentation. The Company is now organized as one operating segment.

The Company presents its segment information along the same lines that its Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) reviews the Company’s operating results in assessing performance and allocating resources. The Subscriptions and Interactive Services operating segment markets its services to clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and insurance industries primarily located in the United States. The Company’s CODM does not review asset or liability information related to the Company's separate product lines on a segment basis, nor does the CODM review separate operating results attributable to those lines, and therefore, no such information is presented. All of the Company's long-lived assets are located in the United States.