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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A local medical center is trying to cut out the burgeoning subculture of “copy-and-paste”: A phenomenon made possible by electronic medical records in which physicians copy old ...

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 ...