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.

  • RubberDuckEnglish
    21•6 months ago

    Probably nurses are billed out at 90 an hour.

    • @jeffwEnglish
      8•6 months ago

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

      • RubberDuckEnglish
        1•6 months ago

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

        • @jeffwEnglish
          3•6 months ago

          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.

          • RubberDuckEnglish
            3•6 months ago

            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

            • @jeffwEnglish
              1•6 months ago

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