A facility reported on (b)(6) 2022, that a new troponin assay, hstni_stat, does not post results as expected when sent from data management system (dms).A rerun of results are seen in the dms results trace log but are not viewable in instrument manager (im).If results are resent from the dms, then the results are seen in im.It was later reported by the site, on (b)(6) 2023, that this issue had also been occurring with human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg) tests.Upon investigation it was found that the hgc and hstni_stat assays were included in a "hold results until complete" function group on the dms instrument driver.With the "hold results until complete" function disabled the issue cannot be reproduced.Further investigation found temporary (imtemp) entries for the held tests.The imtemp entries were found to be missing a timeout configuration value for the test.A root cause analysis revealed that a text box in the driver configuration properties contains leading spaces that are hidden and unexpected.The driver is not configured to handle the leading spaces and therefore the results are not released as expected.This constitutes a malfunction of a component driver (dms driver v8.00.0008) associated with the data innovations (di) im medical device.A known issue (ki) has been created to further investigate and correct this issue.A patient impact statement has not yet been received by data innovations and therefore, patient impact has been unable to be determined.
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