May 21, 2026
Below are the Contents of our current ABL Technology Online News & Trendletter
CLICK ON SPECIFIC HEADLINES BELOW to Go to SPECIFIC ARTICLES
ABL-TECH MEMBER NEWS
-
- Alvaka (Oli Thordarson) Explains AI-Driven Vulnerability Discovery & Exploit Development
- AssetSmart (Chris Campbell) Describes Importance of Integrated Systems in Calibration Management
- Dave Berkus Featured on Podcast & Article + Extols CEO Roundtables Like ABL
- Chris Dyer & Book Spotlighted on Podcast & “Must-Read” Guide
- Eckert & Ziegler (Frank Yeager) Secures Patient Access to Critical Eye Cancer Treatment with MDR Certification
- GIDEON Informatics (Uri Blackman) Adds New Clients & Explains All About Hantavirus
- Adam Miller Endorsed by Los Angeles Daily News & More
- myKaarma (Ujj Nath) Selected as Ford Dealer Technology Preferred Partner & Launches Partner Portal
- John Tanner’s NuSci to Present Nutrition Health Workshops in June & July
- The Joy Factory (Sampson Yang & Miranda Su) Offers Ebook on Rugged Devices for Field Environments
- Toast (Ken Neeld) Launches Handheld POS Device Globally & Complete Marketing Solution + Teams with Large Hotel Brand
- Marshall Toplansky: Argyros College Climbs US News & World Report Rankings + Podcasts Focus on Liberalism & Wealth Taxes
HEALTH-TECH MEMBER NEWS
- Angle Health (Andy Leeka) Sees Fixing the “Black Box” of Health Insurance with AI
- Eitan Medical (Roger Massengale) Introduces the Avoset Pain Management System to the U.S. Market
- Onward (Steve Grau) Receives $1.9M Grant to Subsidize WAV Trips Across Four Bay Area Counties
- PreludeDx’s (Dan Forche) AidaBREAST Demonstrates Spatial Proteomics for Clinical Oncology
- Sheppard (Linda Igarashi) Addresses Healthcare Law Issues & AI
UPCOMING ABL-TECH ZOOM TABLES
-
-
- 6/4 – First Thursday Round Table – Leveraging AI to Improve Your SWOT Strategy & Analyses + featuring Ujj Nath, CEO of myKaarma
- 6/10 – Second Friday Round Table – Leveraging AI to Improve Your SWOT Strategy & Analyses + featuring Dave Berkus, Chairman of multiple portfolio companies
-
TECH INDUSTRY NEWS & TRENDS
AI NEWS & TRENDS
- Your Work Team Is Now a ‘Pod’ and Your Co-Workers Are AI Agents
- How to Learn Claude Code for Free with Anthropic’s AI Courses
- “Organizational Readiness” is Critical for AI Project Success
- Engineering Roles Shift from Developing Code to Managing AI
- CIOs, CHROs Must Work Together to Retain AI Talent
- “AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It” – A Fascinating Perspective
OTHER TECH NEWS
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!
“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.
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
Beyond their Round Tables, ABL Members stay connected with each other through the ABL Technology Online. This bi-weekly emailed publication provides Member News and Technology Industry Trends. And, for those interested in the latest in Healthcare IT Member News and Trends, the ABL Healthcare Online is also available. For a complimentary subscription, fill out the form at the bottom of this page.