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 ...

The use of the copy and paste functions in EHR systems remains controversial. When the EHR medical upcoding scandal broke last fall, some commentators implicated the unchecked use of copy and paste ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is going to regulate the controversial copy-and-paste capability of electronic health record (EHR) systems in its campaign against billing fraud. CMS ...

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 ...