Copy and Paste: A Remediable Hazard of Electronic Health Records

Siegler opines that one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting lies not in a deficiency but in a feature, the copy-and-paste function, which allows an author to copy information from a prior note and paste it into a new note. Although physicians generally fail to perceive its negative...

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Published inThe American journal of medicine Vol. 122; no. 6; pp. 495 - 496
Main Authors Siegler, Eugenia L., MD, Adelman, Ronald, MD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.06.2009
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects
Confidentiality
Copy
Copying Processes - standards
Credibility
Disadvantages
Electronic health records
Errors
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval
Interdisciplinary Communication
Internal Medicine
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Quality of Health Care
United States
United States
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Summary:Siegler opines that one of the most egregious dangers of electronic charting lies not in a deficiency but in a feature, the copy-and-paste function, which allows an author to copy information from a prior note and paste it into a new note. Although physicians generally fail to perceive its negative impact, the copy-and-paste function has led to a number of unexpected problems and concerns about electronic note writing and its impact on the culture of medicine, including reducing the credibility of the recorded findings, clouding clinical thinking, limiting proper coding, and robbing the chart of its narrative flow and function.
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ISSN:0002-9343
1555-7162
DOI:10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.02.010