Disability and aged care businesses should use robots to complete routine tasks such as monitoring vitals and logistics, the Productivity Commission says in a new report that also calls on the government to slash layers of red tape that make it difficult for people to get into care jobs.
In the commission’s fifth and final report ahead of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable next week, it also urged the government to create uniform rules on the use of AI across the whole care economy, rather than letting “sector-specific approaches develop which create complexity and inconsistency”.
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