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In this episode, Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Medical Officer at WHOOP and former Chair of the FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee, explores how healthcare can embrace AI without losing the clinical judgment, human connection, and context essential to patient care. She sees AI as a powerful source of compute that can surface knowledge, identify patterns, and help clinicians navigate growing volumes of health data, while clinical acumen remains central to decision-making.

Dr. Bhatt emphasizes that digital health and Agentic AI must start with the patient, incorporate individual preferences, and establish clear guardrails for when human intervention is required. She also highlights wearables as an important bridge between community-based monitoring and clinical care.

Dr. Bhatt highlights the need for post-deployment monitoring and real-world evidence as AI systems continuously evolve, and calls for closer collaboration among patients, clinicians, technology companies, and regulators. She urges healthcare leaders to prepare for constant technological change, develop stronger digital infrastructure, and focus innovation on unmet patient needs rather than technology for its own sake. Take a listen. 

Dr. Ami Bhatt is Chief Medical Officer at WHOOP, a role that places her at the center of how continuous health data earns clinical trust and reaches patients. She served as the inaugural Chair of the FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee and previously as Chief Innovation Officer at the American College of Cardiology. Before that, as Director of Outpatient Cardiology, TeleCardiology, and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard and Yale-trained cardiologist, Dr. Bhatt spent years inside the systems that deliver care, which is precisely why she understands where they break.

She evaluates innovation by its outcomes, asking not whether a tool is technically capable, but whether it works for the clinician using it and the patient depending on it. Her work spans AI governance, digital health strategy, health equity, and the policy frameworks that determine which innovations actually get implemented.