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Merge Healthcare, Inc.: 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.

Recall number
Z-1517-2017
Recalling firm
Merge Healthcare, Inc.
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.
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2015-09-22
Posted
not on file
Terminated
2019-08-08
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.
Root cause
Software design
Action
On 9/22/2015, the recalling firm issued letters dated 9/8/2015 and flagged "PRODUCT INFORMATION" via email to their customers. The recalling firm also issued letters dated 3/28/2016 via email the week of 4/4/2016. If no email address was available, the letters were issued via certified mail. A letter dated 7/11/2016 was issued to nonresponders.
Quantity
89 sites potentially have the affected software
Distribution
US Nationwide Distribution.
Lot, serial or model codes
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
510(k) numbers
["K051649"]
PMA numbers
not on file
Product code
LLZ
Firm FEI
1000116130
Firm city
Hartland
Firm state
WI
Firm country
not on file

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FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
File
device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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b87518bfe2e8
Size
288210821 bytes
Published
2026-09-28
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2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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