Centricity PACS Medical Imaging System Image Acquisition and Synchronization Failures
GE Healthcare's Centricity PACS-IW system experiences image acquisition and synchronization failures that could impair the display of medical images. The software malfunction affects 392 devices globally.
What this means for you
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: The source reports functional failures in a medical imaging system with no reported illnesses or injuries. This represents a risk-of-harm product where injury has not yet been reported, meeting the criteria for Score 3 (High).
Plain-English summary
GE Healthcare has recalled the Centricity PACS-IW with Universal Viewer, a medical imaging system used to display and manage medical images, including mammograms, and imaging data from various sources.
The recalled system experiences image acquisition failures and synchronization failures with the Centricity Enterprise Archive. These failures affect the software version 5.0.x identified by product code 2068177-001.
The recall affects 392 devices worldwide: 219 in the United States and 173 distributed internationally. Affected U.S. states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming. International distribution includes Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Uruguay.
The recalled product
- Product
- Centricity PACS-IW with Universal Viewer - Product Usage: Is a device that displays medical images (including mammograms) and data from various imaging sources.
- Manufacturer
- GE Healthcare, LLC
- Hazard
- image-acquisition-failure
- synchronization-failure
- software-defect
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (16)
- 1-121967267
- 1-429329281
- DGC19607785
- HC3062UV01
- HCIT1401012UW
- HCIT4331279UV
- PACS-IW-127
- PACS-IW-219
- PACS-IW-2770
- PACS-IW-323
- PACS-IW-421
- RICHMONDU14767331
- RICHMONDU15531177N1
- X1347906 / X1347909
- YP315021
- ZA2412PAC21 and ZA2533PAC1
Distribution
Distributed in 34 states:
- AK
- AZ
- CA
- CO
- DE
- FL
- GA
- IA
- IN
- LA
- MA
- MD
- MI
- MN
- MO
- MS
- MT
- NC
- ND
- NJ
- NM
- NV
- NY
- OH
- OK
- OR
- PA
- SD
- TX
- UT
- WA
- WI
- WV
- WY
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