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 millennium® database architecture nor are these products currently actively regulated by the fda.This report documents information related to an issue identified with functionality included in cerner's millennium® database architecture.This issue occurs when a client installs millennium database architecture which causes an error to occur during combining patient and encounter records.This error causes the combine process to fail and prevents person or encounter records from being combined.Patient care may be affected if a patient has multiple active person or encounter records that cannot be combined.If the clinician is not aware of or have access to the multiple records, clinical care decisions could be made based on incomplete information.Cerner has not received communication on any adverse patient events as a result of this issue.
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