Mimi Grant recently participated in the Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050, held at the Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building on the National Mall. Following, Mimi shares a brief photo journal, with captions, of her incredible experience.   In 1879, the “National Museum” – the nation’s...

07 July, 2022

Mimi shares how embracing new processes, tools, and approaches - including a National Patient Safety Board - could dramatically reduce hundreds of thousands of lives lost each year when harm IS done in the hospital. Video Transcript: Since to Err Is Still Human, Healthcare Could Use a...

24 September, 2021

Medical Errors Cause ~250,000 Deaths a Year in the U.S. When the seminal Institute of Medicine’s report "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” was released over 20 years ago, the nation was shocked to learn that 98,000 patients die in the hospital at...

09 September, 2021

Last Wednesday, Oli Thordarson, CEO of Alvaka Networks - and ABL Organization Member for nearly 26 years, headed an all-star cast of cyber-defenders who presented "Defending Yourself and Your Company from Cyberattacks." As Bob Rose, President of MedWand Solutions, enthused afterwards, it was "One of...

10 August, 2021

ABL President Mimi Grant's foreword:  In Can you be an adaptive business leader?, Dave Berkus - a successful entrepreneur, CEO, angel investor, and more - explains his choice to participate in ABL Organization, and shares several specific ways the insights garnered there have helped him...

20 July, 2021

Last week Microsoft announced they're making their second largest acquisition ever (after the purchase of LinkedIn in 2016). In fact, they're willing to spend a total of $19.7 billion to purchase a key player in the healthcare information arena: Nuance Communications. For over 20 years,...

20 April, 2021

Even though Dave Berkus (pictured at right) has been an ABL Technology Member for nearly 32 years, he's well-known to many of ABL's Healthcare Members for his awe-inspiring financial accumen and success as a serial entreprenuer and investor in - and advisor to - over 200 startups. He's also...

06 October, 2020