“Copy and Paste” Notes and Autopopulated Text in the Electronic Health Record.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/copy-and-paste-notes-and-autopopulated-text-electronic-health-record This WebM&M Case describes two cases illustrating several types of Electronic Health Record (EHR) errors, with a common thread of erroneous use of electronic text-generation functionality, such as copy/paste, copy forward, and automatically pulling information from other electronic sources to populate clinical notes. The commentary discusses other EHR-based documentation tools (such as dot phrases), the influence of new documentation guidelines, and the role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to capture documentation.