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UPMC Smart Room for Healthcare

 IBM and UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) are teaming up to bring “smarter” hospital rooms to patients nationwide. Created by UPMC three years ago to bring the right patient information to the bedside when it’s needed, the high-tech “smart room” now features new capabilities, namely a system for automatically organizing and prioritizing the work of nurses and other caregivers. Under a new agreement, IBM will be the exclusive sales channel for the SmartRoom solution and will help to implement the technology for customers.

Smart Room is a health IT solutions company focused on improving clinical workflow and providing in-context information for clinicians at the bedside. Smart Room, jointly funded by UPMC and IBM, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. Working in close collaboration with clinicians and hospital executives, Smart Room 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 is an $8 billion integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one of the leading nonprofit health systems in the United States. As western Pennsylvania’s largest employer, with almost 50,000 employees, UPMC is transforming the economy of the region into one based on medicine, research and technology. By integrating 20 hospitals, 400 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, long-term care facilities and a major health insurance services division, and in collaboration with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC has advanced the quality and efficiency of health care and developed internationally renowned programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, orthopaedics, and sports medicine, among others.

Solutions

Smart Room Simplifies Patient Care

Smart Room’s solutions allow clinicians to spend more time with patients and help improve outcomes…by spending less time:

Documenting

Repeating steps

Backtracking

Smart Room redefines the meaning of “workflow solution.” Caregivers are alerted to which tasks should be completed next, saving both time and effort.

Smart Room Puts Information at Your Fingertips

For Caregivers

Smart Room’s caregiver touch screen allows clinicians to chart critical information in the patient room, resulting in:

Immediate documentation as care is complete

Improved infection control

Less alerts and interruptions through proactive learning

Transparent communication between caregivers, patients and patients’ families via the patient information screen

Fewer errors due to automated data population in the electronic medical record (EMR)

Quick access to information at the bedside

For Patients and Families

Smart Room’s patient interactive screen provides the patient with several education, communication, and entertainment features, resulting in:

More educated patients by involving them and their family in the care process in a more collaborative way

Higher patient satisfaction by increasing a patient’s understanding of medical procedures and processes and providing easy communication with their family and friends

Smart Room closes the “EMR Gap”