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, ...