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Readiness verdict

MedASR

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

As of
2026-06-28
Revision
1
Method
v1.0.0

Current reading

The readiness gap, in one scan

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Claimed
60

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
60

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
55

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+5

Claimed minus verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28

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
7
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
2
Tier 3
5
Supports
4
Contradicts
1
Context
2
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

This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.

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