{"id":230771,"date":"2026-06-12T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-are-using-ai-in-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:50:11","slug":"how-wisconsin-doctors-and-patients-are-using-ai-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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>Certainly! Here\u2019s an unordered list of 6 key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Increased AI Use in Wisconsin Healthcare:<\/strong> A significant rise in the use of AI by Wisconsin healthcare providers is noted, with over 80% of physicians now employing some form of AI, more than double the rate from 2023.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Common AI Applications:<\/strong> The primary applications of AI include note-taking, summarizing medical research, assisting with diagnostics based on test results, and drafting messages to patients.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Benefits of AI Note-Taking Tools:<\/strong> AI tools, like ambient scribe technology, enable doctors and nurses to focus more on patient care by reducing the time spent typing. This technology has been shown to improve eye contact during patient interactions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Role in Patient Communication:<\/strong> AI agents can conduct outreach to patients, schedule necessary tests, and check in post-procedure to ensure adherence to the care plan, routing any concerns to human caregivers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Limitations:<\/strong> Dr. Brooke Crotty identifies AI hallucinations and sycophancy as major concerns, emphasizing that AI should support, not replace, clinicians within a broader healthcare process.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Challenges of Direct Patient AI Use:<\/strong> Issues such as potential AI errors, data privacy, and the lack of infrastructure and digital health literacy in rural and underserved areas raise concerns about patients using AI tools independently.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/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":230772,"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-230771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230773,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230771\/revisions\/230773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}