Gist Healthcare Podcast

Putting patient safety into practice: improving access across healthcare organizations

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By J. Carlisle Larsen
16 min readAug 3, 2026
Strategy partnerships and innovation

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Improving patient access requires more than new processes. It also requires clinicians, administrators, and healthcare leaders to work toward a shared goal. In Part 2 of our conversation, Victor Hassid, MD, Associate Vice President of Access Strategic Operations at MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how organizations can align teams, overcome operational challenges and begin putting a patient safety approach to access into practice.

You can listen to the first half of the conversation here.

You can find Dr. Hassid's article in JAMA here. (paywall)

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J Carlisle Larsen

J. Carlisle Larsen

Media Production Director

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