FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
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
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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