Regulators have posted a recall of medical imaging software after the manufacturer determined that a flaw can make ruler measurements inaccurate on the workstations radiologists use to read scans. The affected product is FUJIFILM Synapse PACS version 7.4.310, and the recall is unusually small: six systems, at sites in five states and one location in Australia.
The size is worth stating plainly at the top, because the story is easy to inflate. This is not a nationwide software failure sitting inside every hospital reading room. It is a narrow, identified defect at a handful of installations, and the manufacturer has told those sites they may continue using the system, provided staff are aware of the problem and take appropriate precautions when making a diagnosis.
