The copy and paste function of an electronic health record is "one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting," according to a recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine. Arie ...

Overuse of the “copy and paste” function in EHRs may compromise the accuracy of patient data, according to a National Institute of Standards and Technology report. NIST — working with ECRI and the U.S ...

Hospitals should adopt policies to encourage the appropriate use of the copy and paste function in electronic medical records systems because Recovery Audit Contractors who find similarities among ...

To save time, many clinicians use an electronic health records’ copy-paste function to propagate text from one field to another. A study published in Critical Care Medicine showed notes entered by 82 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who created the cut/copy and paste function, died Monday, his former employer Xerox confirmed ...