Events

Recall of GE Centricity Picture Archiving & Communication System

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions.

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
    16544
  • Event Initiated Date
    2014-04-15
  • Event Country
    New Zealand
  • Event Source
    NZMMDSA
  • Event Source URL
    https://medsafe.govt.nz/hot/Recalls/RecallSearch.asp
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from New Zealand is current through July 2018. All of the data comes from the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, 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 New Zealand.
  • Extra notes in the data
    Recalling Organisation: GE Healthcare Limited, 8 Tangihua Street, Auckland 1010
  • Reason
    Manufacturer has become aware of a potential safety issue with centricity pas. it has been identified that in a reject image workflow where multiple studies are simultaneously opened on the centricity pacs ra 1000 workstation and images are rejected form the active displayed study, images from the previously displayed study may also be rejected.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

GE Centricity Picture Archiving & Communication System

Manufacturer

GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions