About Us

SmartRoom

SmartRoom is a health IT solutions company focused on improving clinical workflow and providing in-context information for clinicians at the bedside. SmartRoom, jointly funded by UPMC and IBM, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Working in close collaboration with clinicians and hospital executives, SmartRoom innovates the delivery of health care by eliminating tasks and helping clinicians more easily navigate patient information. This allows caregivers to spend more time providing high quality care to their patients.

UPMC

UPMC is an $8 billion integrated global health enterprise with almost 50,000 employees headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is transforming health care by integrating 20 hospitals, 400 doctors' offices and outpatient sites, a health insurance services division, and international and commercial services.

Redefining health care by using innovative science, technology, and medicine to invent new models of accountable, cost-efficient, and patient-centered care, UPMC is taking medicine from where it is to where it needs to be.

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

IBM has been known through most of its recent history as the world's largest computer company; with over 388,000 employees worldwide, IBM is the largest information technology employer in the world. Despite falling behind Hewlett-Packard in total revenue since 2006, it remains the most profitable. IBM holds more patents than any other U.S. based technology company. It has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories worldwide.

IBM employees have earned three Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. As a chip maker, IBM has been among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders in past years, and in 2007 IBM ranked second in the list of largest software companies in the world.