Events

Recall of Intelerad IntelePACS System

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand 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
    16869
  • Event Initiated Date
    2014-06-23
  • 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: Pharmaceutical Marketing New Zealand Ltd, 162 Nile Road, Milford, Auckland 0620
  • Reason
    This issue relates to the compression of images into jpeg 2000 (j2c) format. in specific circumstances, when writing image data to storage that has filled up, the image data may become truncated.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

Intelerad IntelePACS System

Manufacturer

Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated