Closing the AI Governance Gap and Building Upstream Care with Dr. Ami Bhatt of the American College of Cardiology
Healthcare AI often gets scrutinized at the front door. The real risks live downstream in workflows and handoffs no one is watching.
Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer of the American College of Cardiology*, joins David Wright to unpack the governance gap in healthcare AI and where systems need to look.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
00:00 Introduction.
02:24 Ami names the governance gap in healthcare AI as the most urgent issue to address.
03:18 The American College of Cardiology represents 60,000 members across more than 2,500 health systems worldwide.
11:42 More patient data does not automatically improve care without infrastructure to interpret it safely.
13:23 Ami learns that management requires collaboration, not simply telling people how to do their jobs.
20:53 Reframing "barriers" as "dependencies" changes how technology adoption conversations unfold with health systems.
24:10 PRIME-Heart shifts cardiology's focus upstream, toward prevention rather than only treating advanced disease.
27:59 Predictive tools only help patients when timed to a moment where care can change outcomes.
32:03 Expanding clinical teams to include pharmacists and community health workers could close the caregiver gap.
38:10 Ami predicts population health will shift toward wearables and monitoring in the patients' homes.
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RESOURCES MENTIONED
American College of Cardiology Website
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
“A Guardian and a Thief” by Megha Majumdar
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*Since recording this interview, Dr Bhatt has become Chief Medical Officer of WHOOP