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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
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Mature

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
70% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:52:55.237018+00:00
Claimed
90

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
86

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
77

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+13

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

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
14
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
4
Tier 3
10
Supports
10
Contradicts
4
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

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

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