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JUNE ABL HEALTHCARE ZOOM TABLES

• 6/3 – First Wednesday ZOOM Table – Discussion Topic: “How Is AI Catching Fire in Your Health/Tech Business – And Who’s Lighting the Match?” – featuring Roger Massengale, Eitan Medical

• 6/18 – Third Thursday ZOOM Table – Discussion Topic: “Tapping Youthful Super Stars to Grow Your Organization” – featuring Debbie Toth, Choice in Aging

Blog by Mimi Grant, President of ABL Organization

The PRESENTATION SLIDES from ABL’s “How AI is Accelerating Outcomes in Business, Healthcare and Government” (held in person on 4/22/26) are now available on the password-protected “MEMBERS ONLY” section of the ABL Website, under “Presentations.”

The event featured Adam Miller, candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles; Jason Ciment of Get Visible; Chris Campbell of AssetSmart; and Harry Nelson of Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, who also served as our host – many thanks!

With thanks to Debbie Toth for sharing this inspirational story about EPIC’s Judy Faulkner…
She asked her children what they needed most. They said, “food and money.” She said, “No – roots and wings.” Then she pledged to give away $7.7 billion to help others have both.
Judy Faulkner is 82 years old. She’s worth $7.8 billion. And she’s never cashed a single share of her company for herself.
In 1979, Faulkner started a company called Human Services Computing from a basement in Madison, Wisconsin. She had $70,000 from friends and family, two part-time employees, and a computer the size of a washer-dryer.
She wrote the original code herself.
Her goal was simple: create software that could track patient medical records – and keep people from falling through the cracks of a fragmented healthcare system.
That basement startup became Epic Systems. Today, Epic holds the medical records of more than 325 million patients and serves roughly half of all hospital beds in the United States. The company generates $5.7 billion in annual revenue.
And Judy Faulkner still runs it… Click Here to Read Rest of Post https://www.abl.org/A/EpicJudyFaulkner.htm

“The Thinking Game” Is Now Available to See, Enthrall and Inspire You on YouTube
The documentary concludes with the words, “In 2024 Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction.” The previous 80 minutes masterfully tell the story of Demis, the 4-year old chess prodigy, who became a self-taught programmer/ game developer, at 8. In 2010, he founded DeepMind, as an AI startup, to “solve intelligence” and then use intelligence “to solve everything else.” Since its acquisition by Google, in 2014, it’s remained an independent entity based in London, known for its impressive firsts: creating AlphaGo that defeated several world Go champions, reducing the energy used to cool Google’s data centers by 40%, partnering with the NHS to improve medical services and identify the onset of degenerative eye conditions. Plus, AlphaFold, which predicted the 3D structure of a protein from its 1D amino acid sequence. Later, DeepMind created AlphaFold2 to fold all 200 million proteins known to science, and made the system and these structures open, freely available for anyone to use. Already, the impact for pharma is faster drug target identification and improved understanding of disease mechanisms.

VIDEOS of the PRESENTATIONS from ABL’s “Putting AI Agents to Work Profitably” are now available on the password-protected “MEMBERS ONLY” section of the ABL Website, under “Presentations.”

Here is what they include:

Mimi Grant of ABL Organization – shared how far movie-making has come since the first blockbuster, The Great Train Robbery (1903), to the 2023 Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes (for fear of AI’s impact on their jobs), to The Heist (2025), which illustrated how using Google’s Veo 2 and frame-by-frame prompting could create an exciting 1:56 “film” – using no cameras, actors, sets, props, post-production FX, or cleanup.

Anant Singh of Sanas – introduced a typical Customer Service Rep, with a distinct Filipino accent, could be easily understood by someone used to communicating with a Midwestern American accent. Teleperformance, where Reps handle over 5 million calls daily, is fully deploying Sanas’s AI technology, which enables users to change their accents, tone, or speech style – and mute their background noise – during live customer calls.

Marshall Toplansky of Chapman University – as Chapman University’s Innovation Professor, is applying AI to evaluate how well students “get” new information – as they’re learning it, not just on a later test. He’s also using AI in his classes to provide students with Individualized feedback, which enhances retention and analytical success. AI’s automated grading and feedback also streamlines professors’ workloads, too.

Dave Berkus of iMediSync Americas + Multiple Portfolio Companies – trained his own Small Language Model (SLM) – on all his books, blogs, vlogs, and posts, to answer anything about his insights And then taught us what SLMs are, their benefits – and limitations, along with examples of SLMs (besides his own). He even shared how SLMs can replace LLMs for specific tasks, and wrapped up demonstrating the Berkus SLM.

Ken Neeld of Delphi Display, a Toast Company – shared how Toast is far more than just a restaurant management system for 140,000 locations. They’re providing restaurateurs with a Gen AI that drives greater profitability, including: a marketing assistant that creates tailored campaigns and competitive market insights, providing actionable ideas for menu optimization, staffing, and competitive pricing strategies.

Nick Focil of FOMAT Medical Research – showed us how FOMAT’s using AI Initiatives throughout their organization to help make every department more efficient and effective. Including: FOMAT GPT (their own SLM), to help anyone responding to inquiries, Email Filtering, AI Analytics for Clinical Trials, Pre-filling Contracts & Budgets, and making disease-specific patient-recruiting films, all with AI.

ABL Members, Find all of these videos on the password-protected “MEMBERS ONLY” section of the ABL Website, under “Presentations.”