This month The Fenway Institute launched a series of Policy Focus briefs to highlight the importance of gathering sexual orientation and gender identity data in clinical settings. The first, Why gather data on sexual orientation and gender identity in clinical settings explains how gathering such data will help us understand LGBT health disparities, and how it is consistent with key recommendations in Healthy People 2020, the 2011 Institute of Medicine report on LGBT health issues and research gaps, and the Affordable Care Act. Gathering such data in electronic health records (EHRs) is especially important.
Gathering such data is vital to the health of LGBT individuals and the health of our community. Read the full policy brief below and please share with others!
The briefs were authored by Sean Cahill, Director of Health Policy Research, along with Judith Bradford, Co-chair and Director of the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health; Chris Grasso, Data Manager; and Harvey Makadon, Director of the National LGBT Health Education Center.
Read the second brief in the series Policy Focus: How to Gather Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in a Clinical Setting.