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Readiness verdict

Medtronic Adaptive DBS (BrainSense)

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
90

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
86

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
77

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+13

Claimed minus verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28

Adopt with guardrails

Why
Genuinely FDA-approved and commercially deployed (1,000+ patients on adaptive therapy across a 40,000+ Percept installed base) with peer-reviewed long-term efficacy (98% continuation, 91% past one year), but real-world adoption is gated by clinician expertise and per-patient signal viability.
Next
Treat as a real, regulated, shipping product; cite FDA/CE approval and ADAPT-PD JAMA Neurology evidence, but flag the programming-expertise burden and the ~16% non-qualifying-signal rate in any maturity claim

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
5
Contradicts
2
Context
0
Latest observed
2025-10-09

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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