Safe Practices for Copy and Paste in the EHR

Amy Y. Tsou; Christoph U. Lehmann; Jeremy Michel; Ronni Solomon; Lorraine Possanza; Tejal Gandhi

doi:10.4338/ACI-2016-09-R-0150

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2017; 08(01): 12-34
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2016-09-R-0150

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Safe Practices for Copy and Paste in the EHR

Systematic Review, Recommendations, and Novel Model for Health IT Collaboration

Amy Y. Tsou

¹ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA

²Division of Neurology, Michael J Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

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Christoph U. Lehmann

³Departments of Biomedical Informatics & Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

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Jeremy Michel

¹ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA

⁴Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

⁵Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

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Ronni Solomon

¹ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA

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Lorraine Possanza

¹ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA

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Tejal Gandhi

⁶National Patient Safety Foundation, Boston, MA, USA

⁷Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Copy and paste - electronic health records - information technology - health policy - patient safety - clinical documentation

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