Here are some thoughts from a recent conversation between Sherman Eagles, Brian Pate, and Alan Kusinitz of SoftwareCPR®: Cybersecurity vulnerabilities can have unpredictable effects on safety.  Unpredictable effects … to those who have worked to reduce risks of software failures in medical device software, that phrase may be familiar.  That concept is explained in relation to...Read More

Company: Merge Healthcare, Inc. Date of Enforcement Report 7/26/2017 Class lI: PRODUCT Merge Eye Care PACS Viewer 5.2 Merge Eye Care PACS is a software solution for the display, management, archive, interface and integration of ophthalmic device reports, images and data. Merge Eye Care PACS is a software solution using databases for patient demographics, server...Read More

Company:Medtronic Navigation Inc. Date of Enforcement Report 7/26/2017 Class lI: PRODUCT Install CD, Spine tools, Plus and S7, Version 25. Model Number 9731958. Recall Number Z-2746-2017 REASON Software issue related to the StealthStation S7 system and the Synergy Spine application Version 2.1 configured with Spine Tool Install CD version 25. Issue may result in user...Read More

Company:Draegar Medical Systems, Inc. Date of Enforcement Report 7/26/2017 Class lI: PRODUCT Draeger Medical Systems Infinity Acute Care System (M540) Catalog Numbers: MK31501/MK31701/MK31722. Recall Number Z-2734-2017 REASON Cockpits with revision index 06 or higher that contain 4GB RAM modules may not annunciate audio or visual alarms on the Cockpit and Central Station.. RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER Draegar...Read More

Company:AGFA Healthcare Corp. Date of Enforcement Report 7/26/2017 Class lI: PRODUCT Agfa Healthcare NX 3.0.8950 Imaging Processing Software Recall Number Z-2735-2017 REASON A customer reported that when using an NX workstation with software version NX 3.0.8950 software and selecting the affected patient/exam from closed exams, initially the wrong image was linked to the exam and...Read More