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Greyson · 06-13-2013, 02:27 PM

UCD Health System to include sexual orientation, gender identity in e-records

By Mark Glover
mglover@sacbee.com

The UC Davis Health System said today that it will become the first academic health system in the nation to incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity as standard demographic elements within the electronic health records of its patients.

Officials said the move was prompted in part by a 2011 Institute of Medicine report that noted a meager amount of research data about the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients.

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