6. A computer system for reusing document text, the computer system comprising: a computer having a computer storage medium and a computer program code mechanism embedded in the computer storage medium for causing the computer to: a) provide a user with a user interface to request document text reuse for a first medical report documenting a clinical encounter with a particular patient; b) determine whether the user has previously requested document text reuse for the first medical report; c) in response to determining that the user has not previously requested document text reuse for the first medical report: select document text from one or more second medical reports documenting one or more past clinical encounters with that particular patient, in accordance with one or more rules for a document type corresponding to the first medical report, and insert the selected document text into the first medical report; and d) in response to determining that the user has previously requested document text reuse for the first medical report, initiate another document reuse method, wherein the other document reuse method is not based on the one or more rules.
6. A computer system for reusing document text, the computer system comprising: a computer having a computer storage medium and a computer program code mechanism embedded in the computer storage medium for causing the computer to: a) provide a user with a user interface to request document text reuse for a first medical report documenting a clinical encounter with a particular patient; b) determine whether the user has previously requested document text reuse for the first medical report; c) in response to determining that the user has not previously requested document text reuse for the first medical report: select document text from one or more second medical reports documenting one or more past clinical encounters with that particular patient, in accordance with one or more rules for a document type corresponding to the first medical report, and insert the selected document text into the first medical report; and d) in response to determining that the user has previously requested document text reuse for the first medical report, initiate another document reuse method, wherein the other document reuse method is not based on the one or more rules. 8. The computer system according to claim 6 , wherein the computer program code mechanism further causes the computer to store the first medical report in a data set containing the one or more second medical reports.