Allocade, Inc. was founded in 2004 to develop and provide a solution to one of the healthcare industry's most pressing problems, capacity utilization. The company's management team includes former top executives from Siemens Medical Systems, Philips Medical Systems, Winster, Acuson Corporation, Sierra OnLine, Stentor and Inzap. The company’s technology team includes the former director and leading computer scientist within the Artificial Intelligence Application Group at NASA Ames Research Center. Allocade’s underlying On-Cue optimization engine has its genesis in NASA, where the focus was on the best way to optimally utilize the limited resources on the Hubble Space Telescope.