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Readiness verdict

MedGemma 1.5

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

Watch

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
66% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:52:34.882861+00:00
Claimed
60

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
53

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
45

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+15

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Proceed with caution

Why
Free, open, commercially usable, and broad capability with strong vendor distribution, but Google's own clinical-use prohibition, modest absolute imaging scores, and the absence of comparative/independent benchmarks cap it at a developer foundation requiring heavy guardrails.
Next
Only fine-tune/eval the 4B variant in a sandbox against an independent held-out set (to control for contamination); never put outputs in a user-facing clinical path; confirm HAI-DF terms allow the intended use.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
13
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
6
Tier 3
7
Supports
5
Contradicts
6
Context
2
Latest observed
2026-03-01

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 watch to watch.

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