NVIDIA has officially partnered with Hippocratic AI to step into healthcare and introduce the company's newest AI-powered healthcare agents.
The tech giant claims the agents outperformed other prominent AI chatbots and nurses in most aspects.
The company's safety-focused LLM for healthcare, coupled with NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine microservices, powers the task-specific Generative AI Healthcare Agents, which can make appointments over the phone, reach out to patients before surgery, follow up with patients after discharge, and more.
More than a thousand registered nurses and one hundred licensed physicians in the United States have reportedly already evaluated Hippocratic's agents, and numerous healthcare providers are testing the bots internally for non-diagnostic jobs.
(Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images) On January 4, 2022, a medical worker tended to a patient who had Covid-19 in a negative pressure room in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Based on the company's statistics, its bots topped human nurses in every evaluated category, in addition to surpassing competitors like OpenAI's GPT-4 and the LLaMA 2 70B Chat.
In terms of determining how a medication affects lab values, Hippocratic claims that its Constellation model outperformed actual nurses 79% to 63%, 88% to 45% in identifying over-the-counter medications that are prohibited due to a condition, 96% to 93% in accurately comparing a lab value to a reference range; and 81% to 57% in identifying toxic dosages of over-the-counter drugs. Hippocratic agents are shown to cost $9 per hour to run on their website.
Hippocratic has reportedly enlisted the help of more than 40 beta partners to carry out thorough internal testing of its first AI healthcare agents. These agents are targeted toward chronic care management, wellness coaching, health risk assessments, surveys on the social determinants of health, pre-operative outreach, and follow-up after discharge.
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AI Remedies Healthcare Staff Shortage
Vice president of NVIDIA's health care division Kimberly Powell applauded the new AI agents but cautioned that generative AI-powered voice-based digital agents might bring in an era of abundance in healthcare only if the technology could respond to patients in a way that a human could.
According to Hippocratic AI CEO and cofounder Munjal Shah, AI agents can potentially solve some of the healthcare sector's most urgent problems, enhancing patient outcomes while reducing pervasive staffing shortages and expanding access to high-quality treatment.
NVIDIA's AI Plans
The business has also recently announced plans for general-purpose AI robots, codenamed Project GR00T. This project aims to provide a basic model for converting humanoid bots into reality.
NVIDIA is continuing to advance AI in nearly every direction. The company's Generalist Robot 00 Technology, or GR00T for short, will be built to mimic human gestures and comprehend natural language.
In addition, the firm unveiled the Jetson Thor Robot Computer, which is based on the Blackwell architecture and is powered by the NVIDIA Thor SoC. It is part of the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform and is intended to be used as a robot training simulator.
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