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Recall of Siemens syngo.Plaza Imaging System

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Siemens AG.

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
    17987
  • Event Initiated Date
    2016-01-14
  • 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: Siemens Healthcare (NZ) Ltd, Millennium Centre, Part Level 2, Building A, 600 Great South Road, Ellerslie, AUCKLAND 1051
  • Reason
    In case of a system crash images may not be written to the hard disk and there may be inconsistencies in the database. when a system crash occurs (e.G. blue screen, power outage), images may not be written from cache to the hard disk and are lost. in such a case an existing file name identifier might be re-used after restart of the system. now two references to the same image file on sts exist in the database of syngo.Plaza., manufacturer has now released another version of the software as a final correction to this this action (sy099/14/s) . this software update will fix any inconsistencies in the archived data that may have occurred before software update vb10a_hf06 was installed.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

Siemens syngo.Plaza Imaging System
  • Model / Serial
    Model: Catalogue Number: 10863171 & 10592457, Affected: , Software version: All versions
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens AG

Manufacturer

Siemens AG
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Siemens AG
  • Source
    NZMMDSA