Healthcare Informatics February 6, 2017
A new report released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows support for two safe practice recommendations for the use of copy-and-paste in electronic health records (EHRs).
The recommendations were developed by a multi-stakeholder collaborative, the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, convened and operated by healthcare research organization ECRI Institute in 2013. This was the Partnership’s first set of safe practice recommendations. NIST, in conjunction with the Fors Marsh Group (FMG), ECRI Institute, and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command’s (MRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, then conducted a human factors evaluation of the use of copy-and-paste to determine if the Partnership’s recommendations were supported by provider actions and understanding.
In the report,...
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