FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Merge Healthcare, Inc.: Merge Hemo with software versions 10.0 LA. Merge Hemo (formerly named HeartSuite Hemodynamics) monitors, measures, and records physiologic data from a human patient undergoing a cardiac catheterization procedure.
- Recall number
- Z-0554-2016
- Recalling firm
- Merge Healthcare, Inc.
- Product
- Merge Hemo with software versions 10.0 LA. Merge Hemo (formerly named HeartSuite Hemodynamics) monitors, measures, and records physiologic data from a human patient undergoing a cardiac catheterization procedure.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-10-26
- Posted
- not on file
- Terminated
- 2016-07-22
- Reason
- The firm, Merge Healthcare, sent out Merge HEMO V10.0 & Merge CARDIO V10.1 software to 3 customers before the product was completely validated in house.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- Consignees were either contacted via phone 9/2015 or in person 7/31/2015. The customer communications involved the need to upgrade the consignees software. Merge Healthcare did not script the conversations because they opted to hold one-on-one management level discussions to carefully explain the importance of moving to the Generally Available (GA) release.
- Quantity
- 2
- Distribution
- Distributed in the states of IL, NC, and VT.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Merge Hemo with software versions 10.0 LA
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K082421"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- DQK
- Firm FEI
- 1000116130
- Firm city
- Hartland
- Firm state
- WI
- Firm country
- not on file
Where this comes from
- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
- Source file
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)), device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip, sha256 b87518bfe2e8, published 2026-09-28