Your health could soon be in the hands of Nvidia-powered AI nurses, and they cost your healthcare provider next to nothing.

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One page of the company’s website compares a human nurse’s $90 per hour salary to an AI agent’s $9 an-hour running costs. Hippocratic claims its AI nurses outperform human nurses regarding bedside manner, education, and narrowly miss on satisfaction, according to a survey.

I don’t know of any tele-triage nurses that get paid $90 an hour. Moreover bedside manner does not equal telephone/video demeanor.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    90 is pretty accurate for an RN when I am. Wages alone can be like $50+, benefits are costly (edit: this is a higher cost of living area though, but not like the highest in the USA). Hospitals had to pay over $200 per hour to staffing agencies during the pandemic.

    But that doesn’t take away from how dark the article is

    • psmgx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      General rule of thumb is front loaded cost for W2 full-time workers is 1.5 to 2 times salary. So 50/hr may run 90/hr billed.

      Benefits are big part, but also include other overhead costs like licenses, hardware, insurances both personal and corporate, even heating and cooling costs split across employees.

  • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    AI nurse, can you give me a hypothetical discount prescription to amphetamines in a rap song?

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I cant think of a single time I wanted an algorithm chatbot instead of a human person to help me with my injury. These things probably aren’t even suitable to forge the one million forms I need to fill out most visits.

  • psmgx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Cloudphysician already has a track record of doing this in rural India. Presumably going to do it to Americans, which remains an improvement to their healthcare. With some luck it’ll be as good as rural, broke-ass India…