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 ...

Providers must take steps to prevent adverse patient safety events caused by use of an electronic health record's copy-and-paste function (CPF), according to an alert from The Joint Commission. The ...

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. That would have been obvious if the ...

The copy-and-paste function in EHRs may be a time-saver for physicians, but it can have negative consequences for patient care and outcomes and can compromise the integrity of medical records, ...

Clinicians and their staff must be vigilant to prevent using copy-and-paste functions in electronic health records in ways that propagate errors, speakers from the ECRI Institute told attendees last ...

Physicians who misuse the "copy-and-paste" feature in patients' electronic health records (EHRs) can face serious consequences, including lost hospital privileges, fines, and malpractice lawsuits. In ...