{
  "id": 19346403,
  "title": "Patient comfort with AI-driven health care hinges on provider oversight",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/patient-comfort-with-ai-driven-health-care-hinges-on-provider",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-10T14:50:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-11-patient-comfort-ai-driven-health.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new survey reveals that while a majority of patients (56%) feel comfortable with AI making diagnosis or treatment decisions when a healthcare provider can change or override them, this comfort drops significantly to just 9% when AI makes those decisions without provider review. The survey, conducted by the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America, also found that 89% of health care providers have used AI in their work in the past year, but only 20% received formal AI training. This discrepancy in training rates across different practice settings highlights a potential gap in providers' ability to effectively use AI. Additionally, providers underestimate how comfortable their patients are with AI, with a 20-percentage-point gap between patient comfort and provider estimates. The survey suggests that AI has the potential to improve healthcare, but patients want their providers to be involved in the decision-making process rather than having AI replace them.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}