He also is vice president of T-System, a company based in Dallas that provides consulting on regulatory issues. A skilled programmer might be able to block the feature, but it is not as easy as calling your vendor rep.īlocking the feature also is not necessary to avoid fraud, says Robert Hitchcock, MD, FACEP, a practicing ED physician and an Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA) board member.
That common copy-and-paste command usually is built into the local computer environment - the Microsoft operating system on your computer, for instance - rather than the EHR technology itself. But don’t rush to that extreme remedy.įirst, it’s not so easy to do. The government’s pledge to ferret out copy-and-paste fraud is causing some hospitals to ask their electronic health record (EHR) vendors to disable the common 'control-c/control-v' feature altogether.