My wife and I came to the U.S. in the early 1970s from Israel. I was trained as an electrical engineer and served as one in the Israeli Air Force. But I always had an interest in software, which was becoming an emerging industry at that time.
While working as an engineer for a company in New York City called Elcint, I began dabbling in writing software. It was so primitive then. We were doing work for a few radiology practices in NYC. One of the administrators asked me if I could create a simple electronic patient demographics database.
I worked on it nights and weekends. A few weeks later I had it and downloaded it onto the practice’s server, showed practice leaders how it worked, and told them to call me if they had any questions. Other radiology practices heard about it and approached me as well. Before I knew it, I was creating software for probably a dozen radiology practices.
That gave birth to ADS in 1977 and we’ve been creating software continually ever since. Today we have the 15,000 square-foot ADS Building in Paramus, NJ, having evolved from my apartment in New York, to the basement of our house, to a small office in Rochelle Park, NJ, to a much larger space in Maywood, NJ, and finally to our current location.
