Data innovations' (di) customer (b)(6) hospital and clinics inc updated an instrument (myla) in the lab late in the day (b)(6) 2019.The following morning after that upgrade, instrument manager was no longer sending results to the laboratory information system (lis).In troubleshooting the issue with shands, di's support department discovered the driver for the myla (b)(4) has some configuration properties set to null which was causing the results to not pass through the systems correctly.Data innovations has not been able to recreate the issue, nor determine how the fields became null.It is not possible for an end user to change the fields to null, and di has been unable to determine how this occurred, and has not been able to reproduce it.Di has not been able to confirm this is an instrument manager malfunction.There was no patient harm as a result of this issue, there was a delay in reporting results to the lis.Di is reporting this event since a root cause has not been determined and it has not been established if this was or was not an instrument manager malfunction.
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