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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 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not even. If you’re contracting out for nursing, it can go over 90.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

$90 is what a company pays for a visit from the Comcast support guy

[–] Badeendje 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can easily see nurses being billed at 90 an hour to insurance companies. It is not a wild number.

[–] jeffw 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Services are bundled in most scenarios (the hospital visit is paid x dollars when you get y diagnosis, no matter the length of stay or how many hours a nurse spends on you). Home health is probably the one exception where nursing is usually reimbursed hourly.

[–] Badeendje 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but the pricing is then calculated on underlaying costs and estimates. And with that 90 an hour for a nurse is not weird as a basis for calculations. The nurses will get about a third of that ...I guess

[–] jeffw 1 points 9 months ago

Not really, with wages and benefits, it’s close to 90