The software product mentioned in this medwatch report may not be, by definition, a medical device; however, cerner has chosen to file this medwatch report in order to voluntarily notify the fda of a malfunction associated with this software product.The company's filing of this medwatch report does not signify cerner's belief or understanding that medical device reports are required to be filed for products such as cerner's dynamic documentation®, nor are these products currently actively regulated by the fda.The issue involves cerner millennium power forms clinical content and affects users that utilize the application for patient triage decisions.The smart template calculation is sending inaccurate information for patient triage decisions, based on incorrect sequential organ failure assessment (sofa) and modified sequential organ failure assessment (msofa) scores calculated in the sequential organ failure assessment (sofa) powerform.The spo2/fio2 ratio is currently calculated by dividing the lowest spo2 value from the last 24 hours by the lowest fio2 value from the last 24 hours, instead of calculating a spo2/fio2 ratio each time spo2 and fio2 are documented to determine the lowest ratio for the time period.This issue could lead to resulting in inaccurate information being used during triage.Cerner has not received communication on any adverse patient events as a result of this issue.
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