Events

Recall of INTELEPACS

According to Health Canada (via FOI), this recall involved a device in Canada that was produced by INTELERAD MEDICAL SYSTEMS INCORPORATED.

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
    139011
  • Event Risk Class
    II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2017-11-30
  • 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
    Following a complaint from a client intelerad is taking a pro-active field action to prevent occurrence of a possible patient safety problem at client sites. the issue is triggered by the presence of the "less than" character (<) in the report. when viewing a report the "less than" character is not present while it was there in the original report received by intelepacs. in other cases when the character is present in a combination with other characters parts of the report text following the less than character are not displayed depending on the intelerad application used by the end-user to review the reports.

Device

INTELEPACS

Manufacturer

INTELERAD MEDICAL SYSTEMS INCORPORATED