UnitedHealth Subsidiary Voluntarily Recalls Its Electronic Health Record Software

In a July 29, 2013 notice on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website, UnitedHealth Group’s OptumInsight subsidiary reported that it was voluntarily recalling certain versions of its Picis ED PulseCheck electronic health record (EHR) software to repair a problem that caused manually entered physician notes to patient prescriptions, to be omitted from the patient chart in the EHR. The problem affected the ED PulseCheck- 2015 software, versions 5.2 and 5.3, used by 35 organizations in 20 states. Picis has completed a routine software update that resolved the issue for all users. In a public . . .