U.S. health secretary says AI nurses are as good as any doctor.

 

Ana the AI nurse

Meet Ana, the Artificial Intelligence (Al) nurse. Ana isn't human but an artificial intelligence program created by 'Hippocratic AI', a U.S. company that is offering to automate time consuming tasks usually performed by nurses and medical assistants.

Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, the U.S. health secretary, who opposed the COVID vaccine and linked vaccination to autism, has suggested that AI nurses (Chabot’s and Avatars) are "as good as any doctor."

Hippocratic AI offers its AI nurses for $9 an hour compared to about $40 an hour for a registered nurse. Hospitals in the U.S., say that AI is helping their nurses work more efficiently and dealing with burnout and understaffing. The nursing unions say that this technology is overriding nurses' expertise and degrading the quality of care that patients receive. Michele Mahon, of National Nurses United, said: "Hospitals have been waiting for the moment when they have something that appears to have enough legitimacy to replace nurses.”

Wes Streeting, Labour's health secretary, is known to be in favour of bringing AI technology into the NHS. It has been suggested that AI technology could be used to read medical scans and undertake diagnosis.

General Medical Practice in Britain is already being de-skilled with the introduction of less skilled medical people and dilutees like the 'Physician Associate', or the 'Anaesthetist Associate'. The Trump administration also want to make the NHS accessible to American health care companies and part of any trade deal with Britain.