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Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Awa to c/health

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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.

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[–] jeffw 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jeffw 1 points 9 months ago

A lot of overhead would still apply. Probably not licenses