Events

Recall of CENTRICITY PACS WORKSTATION - ARCHIVE SOFTWARE OPTIONS

According to Health Canada (via FOI), this recall involved a device in Canada that was produced by GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA (OPERATING AS GE HEALTHCARE).

What is this?

A correction or removal action taken by a manufacturer to address a problem with a medical device. Recalls occur when a medical device is defective, when it could be a risk to health, or when it is both defective and a risk to health.

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  • Type of Event
    Recall
  • Event ID
    15479
  • Event Risk Class
    III
  • Event Initiated Date
    2013-07-31
  • Event Country
    Canada
  • Event Source
    HC
  • Notes / Alerts
    Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Canada.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Software defect when the cache disk is full and hl-7 updates are received. the update fails and an epty path name is written in the archive database. when trying to retrieve this instance and error is returned.

Device

CENTRICITY PACS WORKSTATION - ARCHIVE SOFTWARE OPTIONS

Manufacturer

GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA (OPERATING AS GE HEALTHCARE)