GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) issued a field safety notice to physicians in the U.K., warning of a potential defect in its Centricity PACS imaging systems.
The devices could lose images when sending exams from one Centricity PACS System to another via the Centricity to Centricity module, according to the notice.
The affected products are Centricity PACS versions 3.X and higher and Centricity PACS versions 4.X and higher, and the loss of an image might cause misdiagnosis, GE warned.
The Centricity PACS systems are an imaging IT platform, designed with features such as native mammography work-flow, advanced visualization, web-based clients, EMR integration, high availability, and mobile access on phones to meet the needs of healthcare institutions, according to GE’s website.
During a C2C exam transfer, an image may get skipped and subsequently lost if the system is accessing similar data for another request, according to the letter.
GE instructed sites to verify image counts when sending user data in a C2C environment, and the company plans to issue a patch for the issue.