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Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health Records Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction and Overview
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... 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 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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... Areas of focus for the workshop will include the clinical rationale behind col lecting these data, standardized questions that can be used to collect these data, mechanisms for supporting providers and patients in the collection of these data, technical specifications involved in creating standards for sexual orienta tion and gender identity data collection and exchange, and policy considerations related to the Health Information Technology (HIT) Meaningful Use process being overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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... Chapter 3 examines the role that the federal government is playing in developing methods for collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records and ensuring that these methods protect patient privacy and confidentiality. Chapter 4 describes the experiences of several health care systems in developing and implementing questions on sexual orientation and gender identity and incorporating the data in electronic health records.
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