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Event 64796

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
November 20, 2012
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
GE Healthcare It

Dossier provenance

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  • openFDA Device Enforcement Report-date coverage June 20, 2012–July 08, 2026 Known gap: openFDA describes 2004-present coverage, but the current export has no report-date records in this interval.
  • openFDA Device Recall event_date_initiated coverage June 01, 1997–June 30, 2026

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Centricity Laboratory Core Lab System 4.1 The Centricity Laboratory System is intended to be an information system designed to support the clinical and administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of clinical laboratory services and facilities, e.g., the storing and delivering of analytical results. It is a specially designed data program application (software), which is supplied for installation in existing mainframe or decentralized computers or a computer network.

Z-2671-2016
Recall number
Z-2671-2016
Initiated
November 20, 2012
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
GE Healthcare It
Quantity
17

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
The Centricity Laboratory removes free-text notes on a master panel when the user deletes the slave panel. The deletion of a slave panel will (auto slash) the corresponding test (item) results on the master panel. Additionally, the displayed and HL7 results show neither the appropriate abnormal flag value nor the reference range values, when using large_num.g >7 to report numeric results.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

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Reason for recall

The Centricity Laboratory removes free-text notes on a master panel when the user deletes the slave panel. The deletion of a slave panel will (auto slash) the corresponding test (item) results on the master panel. Additionally, the displayed and HL7 results show neither the appropriate abnormal flag value nor the reference range values, when using large_num.g >7 to report numeric results.

Code information

Versions 4.1, 4.0, 3.3.2 & 3.3Almp

Distribution pattern

Worldwide Distribution - US Distribution to GA, OH, NY, TX, TN ,MN and Internationally to India, Australia, Canada, England, Qatar, and Scotland.