The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall of McKesson Technologies Anesthesia Care software following an incident of a patient's data appearing in another patient's record.
McKesson had previously filed a Class II recall voluntarily last March following the incident, and issued a corrective patch to 10 affected customers. In a statement, McKesson states no patient harm resulted from the incident, and the company is closely monitoring the software.
Class I is the FDA's highest level of recall, used when there is "a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death." McKesson is currently working with the FDA to close the Class I recall.
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