{"id":271401,"date":"2026-06-12T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-are-using-ai-in-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:40:26","slug":"how-wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-are-using-ai-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-are-using-ai-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"How Wisconsin doctors and patients are using AI in healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-ai-assist-healthcare\">How Wisconsin doctors and patients are using AI in healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-ai-assist-healthcare\">https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-ai-assist-healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 12:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wpr.org\">www.wpr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More and more Wisconsin healthcare providers are turning to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey from the American Medical Association found that more than 80 percent of physicians now use some form of AI in their practice, more than double the rate from a 2023 version of the same survey.<\/p>\n<p>The most common uses they reported were for taking notes and summarizing medical research, but some use it to assist with diagnosing from test results or drafting messages to patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gform_title\">Understanding Wisconsin, Together.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gform_description\">WPR\u2019s \u201cWisconsin Today\u201d newsletter keeps you connected to the state you love without feeling overwhelmed. No paywall. No agenda. No corporate filter.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brooke Crotty is an internal medicine physician and interim president for Inception Health, the innovation arm of Froedtert ThedaCare in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>She told WPR\u2019s \u201cWisconsin Today\u201d that AI note-taking, called ambient scribe technology, helps doctors and nurses be more attentive to their patients and spend less time focused on typing into their computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new AI scribes are able to be unobtrusive and invisible in the exam room, to take notes and help provide the clinician with a summary of the medical encounter,\u201d Dr. Crotty said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen studies where we\u2019ve seen more eye contact, and generally it has really helped clinicians and patients feel that it\u2019s helping them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Health systems are also using AI agents to connect with patients between visits.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Crotty said the technology can do outreach to schedule patients for tests or screenings they might need, or it can touch base with a patient after a procedure or hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a patient, you may be called by an AI agent who\u2019s there to check in on you, ask questions, make sure that you\u2019re recovering or doing well according to your care plan,\u201d Dr. Crotty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-ai-assist-healthcare\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Wisconsin doctors and patients are using AI in healthcare https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-ai-assist-healthcare Publish Date: 2026-06-12 12:47:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AI-doctor-computer-algorhitm-AP-photo-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271404,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271401\/revisions\/271404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}