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Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne asked health officials point-blank: "Do you have confidence in the algorithm?" In relation to the aged-care assessment algorithm.

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00:00I just want to come back to my original question.
00:02Given that you've just said to me how extensive the concerns are that have been raised
00:07by providers, assessors, families, peak bodies, gerontologists,
00:14how can you have confidence that the integrated assessment tool
00:17is accurately assessing older people right now,
00:20particularly those with cognitive issues?
00:23So the reason that I have the confidence is because the integrated assessment tool
00:29is the clinical tool that is used,
00:32and then what we're talking about are the algorithms.
00:35So I have a lot of confidence in the tool that was...
00:39Do you have confidence in the algorithm?
00:43Well, the confidence in the algorithm,
00:46the government's announced its review to do that.
00:50So does that mean you don't have confidence right now,
00:52hence why we need a review?
00:54So, Senator, I have confidence the algorithm is...
01:01Could I just get the answer to the question, please, Chair, and then I'll...
01:04Yeah, OK, if everybody could just hold on for a minute...
01:08Sure.
01:09..we will go to the officials at the table for a question.
01:14Yeah.
01:14For the answer to the question.
01:17So we have confidence in the algorithm being well tested,
01:21reflecting people's needs on the integrated assessment tool.
01:25That is not to say we can't go through a process of continuous improvement.
01:29But then we can we're not in deliverance between them,
01:32and only of us are not able to do that.
01:33There are other tools that we got this stream,
01:33so we can move through an optimization tool you can work with,
01:33or give them their ability without relying사를 of.
01:33So that's because I'm thinking...
01:34I'm thinking of why they won't allow them.

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