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 mpages®, 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 mpages.This issue affects users that utilize mpages to document or view consolidated, real-time view of patient information from various sources throughout the electronic health record (ehr).When a patient's name contains an apostrophe, an error is displayed and the user is unable to access that patient's mpages view.Patient care may be delayed if the clinician cannot view or document data for the patient through the desired mpages view.Cerner has not received communication on any adverse patient events as a result of this issue.
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