Healthcare IT News October 7, 2021
Researchers, including ONC Deputy National Coordinator Steven Posnack, noted that existing sex and gender data collection practices do not meaningfully reflect patient identity and diversity.
A team of informatics experts have developed a gender-inclusive Health Level Seven logical model aimed at more inclusive and representative clinical systems.
The model follows more than two years of work by the HL7 Gender Harmony Project, a collaborative international effort to specify standards that can be used by systems and clinicians in the provision of care.
“We have known for two decades that implementing inclusive sex and gender data-collection practices in clinical systems is a critical first step to eliminating data invisibility and addressing health disparities for gender-marginalized people,” said the researchers...
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