Gist Healthcare Podcast

Healthcare AI's next challenge: Proving its value

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By J. Carlisle Larsen
16 min readNov 2, 2026
AI

Gist Podcast

Hackensack Meridian Health recently became the first health system to earn The Joint Commission's Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare Certification. In the second part of his conversation on The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Joel Klein, M.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health, discusses how the system measures AI's benefits, approaches patient safety and considers the technology's potential to expand access to care.

You can listen to the first part of the interview here.

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J. Carlisle Larsen

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J. Carlisle Larsen (JC), is Media Production Director at Vizient. Her responsibilities include breaking down healthcare business and policy news.