FBI probes hacking incident at Indiana clinic -- Dangers of hidden back doors revealed
The hacker subsequently appears to have used the backdoor access to set up or modify user accounts to also allow conventional access to Webchart. Locating back doors built into enterprise software can be difficult, says Pete Lindstrom, an analyst at Spire Security. But Lindstrom says that IT and security managers can take measures to mitigate against the risks posed by back doors, such as monitoring systems at the database and application levels, validating the nature and integrity of database queries, and tracking activity logs.

Potential benefits and problems with computerized prescriber order entry: Analysis of a voluntary medication error-reporting database
A national voluntary medication error-reporting database, Medmarx, was used to compare facilities that had CPOE with those that did not have CPOE. The most common CPOE errors were dosing errors (i.e., wrong dose, wrong dosage form, or extra dose). Both quantitative and qualitative analyses indicate that CPOE could lead to medication errors not only because of faulty computer interface, mis-communication with other systems, and lack of adequate decision support but also because of common human errors such as knowledge deficit, distractions, inexperience, and typing errors.

Intermountain Healthcare to Install Carecast - Now GE Centricity - as Its Foundation Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System
GE Healthcare announced that Intermountain Healthcare will install the IDX(R) Carecast(TM) enterprise system - now marketed as GE Centricity(R) Enterprise - across its organization, and will also serve as a strategic development partner in building advanced decision support and knowledge management tools, as well as other state-of-the art functionality for the enterprise system. (Ed: Does this sort of agreement mark the beginning of a new era of medical informatics' participation in clinical information system design and development?)