Gist Healthcare Podcast

Inside Hackensack Meridian Health's approach to AI governance

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By J. Carlisle Larsen
18 min readOct 26, 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. On The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Joel Klein, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health, discusses the organization's approach to AI governance, building clinician trust and evaluating new technologies before deployment.

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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.