RT Journal
A1 Hirschtick RE
T1 ELectronic medical records and hospital progress notes—reply
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD December 12
VO 308
IS 22
SP 2336
OP 2337
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.14498
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.14498
AB 
Mark Twain wrote, “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”1 With EMR features such as copy-and-paste and one-click data import, it takes less time and effort to write long random notes than it does to write short structured ones. Until EMR systems are modified to reverse this time incentive, long notes will remain the norm.