Events

Recall of CENTRICITY UNIVERSAL VIEWER - MAIN UNIT

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
    96884
  • Event Risk Class
    II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2015-09-29
  • 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
    The products when (1) deployed with centricity pacs and centricity enterprise archive or (2) retrieving images from vendor neutral dicom archives display inaccurate measurements on magnification views acquired from certain digital x-ray systems because certain scanner-originated magnification factors are not taken into account by universal viewer.

Device

CENTRICITY UNIVERSAL VIEWER - MAIN UNIT

Manufacturer

GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA (OPERATING AS GE HEALTHCARE)