Bryan Vartabedian, 33 Charts
“I saw it begin to happen in the ’90′s. Residents came to rounds with their daily notes produced on a word processor. The notes were impressive. Legible, lengthy and meticulously detailed at first glance.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Relying on copying-and-pasting materials within a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) could lead to the insertion of false information in the record, concludes a group of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in a recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Turchin A et al, Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(15)
Electronic medical records (EMRs) can improve many aspects of patient care. Utilization of EMRs is increasing and is particularly encouraged by recent federal legislation. However, EMRs are not always used optimally. Concerns have been raised about inappropriate copying and pasting of information between health care provider notes.
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Janet Dillione, AOL
“Copy-and-paste, templates, macros, checked-boxes and other documentation shortcuts can provide valuable efficiency to doctors and nurses alike. But when it comes to patients’ medical records, there is a fine line between convenience, comprehensiveness and risk.
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Hanlon JT. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 77(7)
The rush to adopt the electronic medical record (EMR) has accelerated since the signing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment (ie, the Stimulus) Act of 2009. The HITECH Act provides incentives for physicians to adopt EMRs.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve seen a number of side comments on the challenges of Copy and Paste functions in an EMR. However, I’ve seen very few people really address the challenge that is copy and paste functions that are built into almost every program in the world.
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Jaan Sidorov, KevinMD
“Detritus.”
Not only was that a chance for the Disease Management Care Blog to refamiliarize itself with an underused noun (and, er, its spelling), that was the telling term used today by a DMCB colleague to describe the output from a local health system’s electronic health record (EHR).
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A recent editorial in the American Journal of Medicine highlights the dangers of cutting and pasting data in an electronic health record.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“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.
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Stephen Strauss, CBC News
“Going to a doctor’s office often seems like a ramble down memory’s windy, overgrown cow path. They want you to recite your whole life in sickness and in health, and that’s hard because you so easily forget your diseased past.
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