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California Health System Allegedly Used an AI Medical Scribe to Record Patients Without Consent
- Occurred
- Nov 26, 2025
- Published
- Dec 11, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleged that Sharp HealthCare, a California health system, used Abridge, an AI medical scribe, to record patient-clinician conversations without notice or consent and send sensitive audio to the vendor. The documentation workflow allegedly inserted false statements that patients had been informed and consented. Patient Jose Saucedo said he discovered the recording through his medical notes.
Developers
- AI transcription technology developers
- AI-enabled healthcare system developers
- Abridge
Deployers
- Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group
- Sharp HealthCare
- Medical personnel
- Healthcare institutions
Harmed parties
- Sharp HealthCare patients
- Privacy
- People recorded without consent
- Patients
- Jose A. Saucedo
- Epistemic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Class-action lawsuit alleges unauthorized recording of private conversations without consent.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8