Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic Health Records

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with ECRI conducted a study titled “Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic Health Records” which was intended to help fill the gap in understanding the implications of the copy and paste functionality by providing a more in-depth examination of how practitioners utilize the copy and paste function in EHRs, exploring if and when they use, what they think about and the ways in which it may or may not lead to errors that could affect patient safety and finally, substantiating the ECRI Partnership recommendations for the safe use of copy and paste function in health IT by providing human factors based recommendations for the...