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Software-Related Medical Device Alerts

Software issues continue to be a significant source of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-mediated medical device alerts (MDAs), recalls, and "upgrades." In the United Kingdom, the counterpart to the FDA is the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency regularly provides MDAs as a means of communicating safety-related information from device manufacturers. This article presents a review of the 2009 MDAs that reported issues with software.