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Medical interpretation AI

No Barrier

No Barrier provides institution-purchased medical interpretation. Its terms allow deletion or anonymization and continuing derivative-data uses, while its security page makes broader deletion and no-repurposing promises. Patient alternatives and correction remain deployment-dependent.

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Published September 8, 2026 as an AI-assisted draft. The public report separates documented facts, agency judgments and unresolved questions.

43 /100 toward patient-directed
Agency posture Mixed, institution-led language-access aid
The question we ask Who does No Barrier serve in this deployment?
Control Institution-purchased medical interpretation used directly with patients. The July 20 baseline is 43, Mixed, institution-led language-access aid.
Agency read Mixed, institution-led language-access aid
Vendor
No Barrier AI, Inc.
Who it serves
Institutional, patient-facing AI medical interpretation and language-access platform
Primary User
Healthcare organizations and care teams. Patients with limited English proficiency are direct participants and intended beneficiaries, not the documented purchasers or administrators.
Control Model
Professional or institution-configured service. Patient controls depend on the deployment.
Patient Impact
Visual explanation and bilingual notes may improve comprehension. Patient-accessible comparison with source speech, qualified review of important summaries and a durable correction route remain unestablished by this pass.
Profile Status
AI-assisted draft
Last assessed
Sep 8, 2026
Review Confidence
Medium for published conditions, low for encounter-level implementation (AI-assisted draft)
AI / Model
OpenAI Codex / GPT-6
Human Review
Hugo Campos authorized publication of these AI-assisted draft reassessments on September 8, 2026. This does not claim comprehensive human verification of every finding.

Summary judgment · 43 out of 100 toward patient-directed

Institution-purchased medical interpretation used directly with patients. The July 20 baseline is 43, Mixed, institution-led language-access aid.

Mixed, institution-led language-access aid

No Barrier provides institution-purchased medical interpretation. Its terms allow deletion or anonymization and continuing derivative-data uses, while its security page makes broader deletion and no-repurposing promises. Patient alternatives and correction remain deployment-dependent.

Patient agency

How this tool changes agency

Expands agency when

Visual explanation and bilingual notes may improve comprehension. Patient-accessible comparison with source speech, qualified review of important summaries and a durable correction route remain unestablished by this pass.

Limits agency when

Patient notice, refusal experience, interpreter escalation, deployment-specific BAA and derivative-data handling were not observed.

Patient agency assessment

Who sets and changes the goal?

Patient authority

Language access can let patients express goals and challenge care decisions. The organization selects and configures the platform. A contractual alternative is meaningful, but it does not establish that a patient can trigger it promptly or correct a disputed translation afterward.

What can the patient understand, question, or do?

Critical capacity

Visual explanation and bilingual notes may improve comprehension. Patient-accessible comparison with source speech, qualified review of important summaries and a durable correction route remain unestablished by this pass.

Can the patient evaluate the conditions of use?

Informed control

The concrete distinction between deletion and anonymization matters to informed participation. Broad no-repurposing messaging does not explain surviving derivative-data permissions or which agreement controls a particular encounter.

Text findings

Conditions of use

Published controls and their limits

The concrete distinction between deletion and anonymization matters to informed participation. Broad no-repurposing messaging does not explain surviving derivative-data permissions or which agreement controls a particular encounter.

What remains unknown?

Not tested or not established

Patient notice, refusal experience, interpreter escalation, deployment-specific BAA and derivative-data handling were not observed.

Who evaluated this?

AI-assisted public-source draft

Vendor statements describe published conditions, not independently verified behavior. No clinical, security, accessibility, or legal validation is claimed. Earlier evidence remains dated in the report and history.

Sources checked

Source-specific findings and retrieval limitations are recorded in the full report.

Review provenance

Criteria

CAIHL-derived HugoScore framework and September 7 qualitative review priorities. Draft v1.2 numerical anchors remain unadopted.

Reviewer

AI-assisted public-source reassessment prepared in OpenAI Codex.

AI / model

OpenAI Codex / GPT-6

Human review

Hugo Campos authorized publication of these AI-assisted draft reassessments on September 8, 2026. This does not claim comprehensive human verification of every finding.

Review date

2026-09-08

Limitations

Patient notice, refusal experience, interpreter escalation, deployment-specific BAA and derivative-data handling were not observed. No live product use, patient-data upload, account creation, code audit, clinical evaluation, or independent implementation validation.

Review method

Focused public-source reassessment using CAIHL: patient authority, critical capacity, and informed control. Existing evidence plus one focused primary-source pass and at most one targeted follow-up. No live product testing. Numerical scores remain provisional editorial placements, not a new calculation.

AI-assisted draft · Medium for published conditions, low for encounter-level implementation (AI-assisted draft)