Events

Recall of INTELEPACS - MAIN UNIT

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
    97602
  • Event Risk Class
    II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2014-06-13
  • 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
    In specific situations a partially truncated file may be written to the intelepacs server. this partially truncated file can still be viewed by inteleviewer and inteleviewer will report to the user that the file in question is complete when in fact they were looking at a lossy image.

Device

INTELEPACS - MAIN UNIT

Manufacturer

INTELERAD MEDICAL SYSTEMS INCORPORATED