Collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records : workshop summary

Alper, Joe,

Collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records : workshop summary [E-Book] - 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiv, 73 pages)) : illustrations

Title from PDF title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction and overview -- Clinical rationale for collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data -- Federal perspective on the use of electronic health records to collect sexual orientation and gender indentity data -- Existing data collection practices in clinical settings -- Developing and implementing questions for collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity -- Closing remarks.

In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding, the first comprehensive compilation of what is known about the health of each of these groups at different stages of life. This report also outlined an agenda for the research and data collection necessary to form a fuller understanding of this subject. One of the recommendations in this report was that, provided that privacy concerns could be adequately addressed, information on patients' sexual orientation and gender identity should be collected in electronic health records, just as information on race and ethnicity is routinely collected. Such data are essential because demographics provide the foundation for understanding any population's status and needs. This recommendation recognized that the possible discomfort on the part of health care workers asking questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, a lack of knowledge by providers about how to elicit this information, and some hesitancy on the part of patients to disclose this information may be barriers to the collection of meaningful data on sexual orientation and gender identity.


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Medical records--Data processing--United States--Congresses.
Medical records--Government policy--United States--Congresses.
Medical records--Standards--United States--Congresses.
Gender identity--United States--Congresses.
Sexual orientation--United States--Congresses.
Gender identity.
Data Collection--standards
Electronic Health Records--standards
Gender Identity
Sexuality


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