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Readiness verdict

MedASR

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Ready

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
75% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:54:25.878931+00:00
Claimed
60

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
60

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
55

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+5

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Adopt with guardrails

Why
Small (105M, ~15x smaller than Whisper large-v3), open, with strong measured WER gains on medical speech and real early traction (58K monthly downloads) - a genuinely low-friction, deployable transcription component IF kept out of the direct clinical-decision path and limited to English.
Next
Run a sandbox WER comparison vs the current Whisper path on representative English audio; gate behind human review for any clinical text; confirm HAI-DF license terms and the English-only scope fit the use case.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
11
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
4
Tier 3
7
Supports
5
Contradicts
2
Context
4
Latest observed
2026-01-14

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from ready to ready.

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