From the ECRI Institute website:
"The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety has established workgroups for in-depth study of health IT events. The issue of copying and pasting health information (e.g., orders, notes, labels) was chosen for the first workgroup. Copy and paste is widespread, often underreported, and has the potential to cause adverse patient safety events.
Four safe practice recommendations were agreed upon and endorsed by the multidisciplinary group of stakeholders:
Recommendation A: Provide a mechanism to make copy and paste material easily identifiable.
Recommendation B: Ensure that the provenance of copy and paste material is readily available.
Recommendation C: Ensure adequate staff training and education regarding the appropriate and safe use of copy and paste.
Recommendation D: Ensure that copy and paste practices are regularly monitored, measured, and assessed.
Additional information about safe practice recommendations and implementation strategies are available for dissemination to the healthcare community through the distribution of a free publicly-available toolkit."