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Event 68965

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
August 13, 2013
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

Dossier provenance

Source snapshots represented here

  • 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

Enforcement coverage uses report dates; product initiation dates can precede those bounds. Device-enrichment coverage uses FDA event_date_initiated.

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Siemens EasyLink Informatics System V4.0/V5 Siemens, Material Number (SMN) 10444799, 10444800, 10487219 A clinical data management system that assists medical laboratory professionals with preanalytic and post-analytic functions in conjunction with multiple instruments, the laboratory information system (LIS) and Siemens StreamLAB Automation Solutions.

Z-2561-2014
Recall number
Z-2561-2014
Initiated
August 13, 2013
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
1347

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
May not perform as intended under certain conditions, causing the release of results to the Laboratory Information System (LIS) that should have been held for manual review due to auto-verification rules or the delay/omission of result transmission to the LIS.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

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Reason for recall

May not perform as intended under certain conditions, causing the release of results to the Laboratory Information System (LIS) that should have been held for manual review due to auto-verification rules or the delay/omission of result transmission to the LIS.

Code information

EasyLink Informatics System V4.0/V5 Siemens Material Number (SMN) 10444799, 10444800, 10487219

Distribution pattern

US Nationwide Distribution