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Device product

Merge Cardio software. Product Usage: Merge Cardio is a system intended to be used to acquire, store, print, transfer, and archive clinical information including images, Hemodynamic studies and reports, measurements (via import from DICOM Structured Reporting, text files or optical character recognition of measurements captured on images) and cardiology signal (waveform) data.

Z-1517-2017

September 22, 2015

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Merge Healthcare, Inc.
Event
Event 76719
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
89 sites potentially have the affected software
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-1517-2017

Official wording

Reason: Users can merge a device import file with an image study that already has a confirmed report, which may result in including information not present at the time of physician interpretation.

Code information: Versions 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, and 9.0.8

Distribution pattern: US Nationwide Distribution.

Derived failure modes

  • Unknown

    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Users can merge a device import file with an image study that already has a confirmed report, which may result in including information not present at the time of physician interpretation.