ARC · The assessment ARC Readiness Assessment Free for 11 kinds of healthcare organization

Know your weakest link before AI does.

About 35 questions, written for your kind of healthcare organization. ARC reads your data, your change management and your AI governance, sets your stage by the weakest of the three, and gives you three decisions and a 30, 60 and 90 day plan.

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The ARC framework

DataChange ManagementAI GovernanceWeakest pillar sets the stage

Free · about 35 questions · scored in your browser · self-reported

ARC · Readiness · current position
The current position page: the overall stage, the ARC scale, and the three pillar scores with the one that set the result.
A real screen from the assessment. Meridian Health System is a made-up organization and every number is sample data.
The ARC framework

Three pillars. One Continuum.

ARC, the AI Readiness Continuum framework by Ankur Jain, reads an organization on three pillars and places it on one of five stages.

01 Data

Can what you have carry an AI tool?

Where your data lives, how many systems one request touches, who owns what counts as accurate, and what keeps it current once a tool is live.

02 Change Management

Who carries the people side?

Whose judgment the tool takes over, who’s accountable for adoption, how concerns raised during evaluation get written down, and what happens the first time the tool is wrong.

03 AI Governance

Who decides what the AI gets to decide?

Who reviews AI and how often, whether a person can stop a tool before its output is used, what gets logged, and how your setting’s own rules apply.

How the result is built

Your stage is your weakest pillar.

Each pillar is scored on its own, and your overall stage comes from the lowest of the three rather than the average. A 4 on data and a 2 on change management reads as a 2, because a deployment fails through its weakest part. The report says which pillar set your stage and shows the answers behind it.

Your free result is marked self-reported, and the evidence and limits page says what ARC can and can’t conclude from your answers.

1

You answer about 35 questions

In your organization’s own language.

2

Three pillars score

Data, Change Management and AI Governance, each on its own.

3

The weakest pillar is found

No averaging. The lowest pillar decides.

4

Your stage is set

One of five, read from that pillar.

5

Your report comes together

The stage, the area to strengthen first, three decisions and a 30, 60 and 90 day plan.

05
Adaptive

Built to absorb the next model as well as this one.

04
Integrated

Data, people, and rules working as one system.

03
Structured

Real plans, real owners, early discipline.

02
Emerging

Pockets of progress, nothing connected.

01
Fragmented

Every team solving AI on its own.

The scale is a reference. It isn’t a safety rating or permission to expand AI.

Score a 4 on data and a 2 on change,
and you’re a 2.

The deployment that fails will fail through the 2.

Built for your setting

Pick who you are. The questions change with it.

The same three pillars and five stages, asked in the language of your setting. The actions in your plan come from the ARC content pack for your type, so a hospital’s first move won’t read like a pharmacy’s.

Live now for 11 kinds of healthcare organization
Hospitals & health systemsClinical data you did not design, and decisions AI is starting to take over.
Specialty pharmaciesMany systems, one patient, and no shared record between them.
Pharmacy benefit managersAutomation reaches prior authorization and claims first.
Patient support hubsCare coordination that still runs on people and workarounds.
EMS & ambulance providersDispatch, documentation, and billing, with medical direction over all of it.
Blood centersCollection and release decisions under manufacturing-grade rules.
Clinical & specialty labsSoftware that scores, flags, sorts, and releases results.
Outpatient imaging providersScheduling, prior authorization, and reading, with AI already inside the software.
Community health centersSmall IT teams, grant-funded systems, and patients who need the most help.
Behavioral health & IDD providersCare plans and documentation, with staff stretched across many sites.
Home care franchisorsOne brand, many owners, and data spread across every location.

Don’t see yours? Talk to us about the guided assessment.

What you get

Six pages, each built from your answers.

The report opens the moment you finish. Each page names the answers that drove it, and every pillar has a “Show supporting evidence” link.

1

Executive insight

The first area to strengthen in one sentence, the answers that put it there, and three decisions required.

2

Current position

Your stage on the ARC scale, each pillar’s score, and which pillar set the overall result.

3

Operator insight

What each pillar means for day-to-day work, and what would show each action is done.

4

AI tools

The tools you listed, live or planned, placed against your setting’s workflows, with the approval, monitoring and independent-check records each one still lacks.

5

30, 60 and 90 day plan

Proposed actions by phase, each with an owner, date, evidence to produce and completion status, all marked proposed until you confirm them.

6

Evidence and limits

What ARC can conclude from your answers, what it can’t, and whether anything is unresolved.

ARC · Readiness · executive insight
The executive insight page naming change management as the first area to strengthen, with three decisions required.
The 30, 60 and 90 day plan with the proposed day-90 outcome and three priority actions.
The AI tools page placing two supplied tools against health system workflows.
The evidence and limits page: what ARC can conclude, what it cannot conclude, and whether anything is unresolved.
The first area to strengthen and the decisions it calls for. Made-up organization, sample data.
Optional AI

One job only. If you agree, an AI model may choose and reorder the items under “Where to look first.” Every item is reviewed wording built from your answers by fixed rules. Your scores, notes, goals, name and email are never sent to the AI service.

Two ways to run it

Start free. Bring the team when it matters.

Self-Assessment
Free · about 35 questions
Who answers
One leader.
What it reads
Your answers, as given.
What you see
The six-page report: your stage, the pillar that set it, three decisions and a 30, 60 and 90 day plan.
Self-reported · unverified
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Guided Assessment
With our team
Who answers
Your leadership team, each answering what they actually own.
What it reads
The same questions, plus the disagreements between your leaders, flagged as findings.
What you see
A cross-checked team reading, worked through with us.
A team reading · cross-checked

The free check tells you where to look. The guided assessment works out what to do about it, with the people who’ll do it.

Who’s behind this.

ARC, the AI Readiness Continuum, is the framework of Ankur Jain, Esq., founder of Artha Consulting Lab, built after fifteen years inside biopharma, pharma and health-system work. The free check runs the same questions we use in paid engagements.

What this is not.

It isn’t a certification, a vendor recommendation, a legal opinion or an implementation plan. Your free result is self-reported and marked that way. A higher stage means fewer things in your way, and the report names the ones left.

Questions leaders ask

Before you start.

Whoever owns the AI question: strategy, operations, informatics or quality. It’s built for one respondent. “Not sure” and “belongs to someone else” are real answers, and the report treats them as findings.

Enough to know where to look. The questions are written for your type of organization and the result is set by your weakest pillar, so they’re built to find the constraint. One respondent can’t cross-check their view against the rest of the team. The guided assessment adds that.

They’re scored in your browser and they produce your report. There’s no public benchmark, directory or sharing. The questions are about your organization, so no patient data is involved. If you turn on the optional AI ordering, your scores, notes, goals, name and email are never sent to it.

No. A higher stage means fewer things in your way, and the report names the ones left. The ARC scale is a reference. It isn’t a safety rating or permission to expand AI.

It’s a useful time to take it. The AI tools page reads what’s live and what’s planned, and mid-deployment is when the weakest pillar starts to show.

About 35 questions. One stage, and the pillar that set it.

Written for your kind of organization, scored in your browser and marked for what it is.

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Already deploying?

See how you oversee the AI you already run.

Readiness asks whether you can start. The AI Governance self-check asks 37 questions on how your AI tools are approved, checked, stopped and explained, with answers linked to the published AIUC-1 requirements. Free, and no score. AIUC-1 is named only to identify the standard. Artha Consulting Lab is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company. Only AIUC issues AIUC-1 certificates.

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