Storified by Pray for Medicine · Fri, Mar 15 2013 14:03:37
A recent IOM workshop examined collecting sexual orientation, gender identity data in #EHR http://ow.ly/iapQl #LGBT
Homosexuality has entered the exchange discussion. The exchange is viewed as a valuable tool for data collection. Maryland is already asking for sexual orientation, gender identity and relationship status in their customer satisfaction tools. Like it or not, everyone will be asked. The liberal Center for American Progress has a new FAQ on data collection opportunities in the exchanges: "...[T]he future of health and health care is built on data. Data collection is indispensable to efforts to achieve better health for all by identifying, tracking and eventually eliminating health disparities...Sexual orientation and gender data will facilitate numerous activities of health insurance exchanges...[I]nitiating collection of these data is vital to establishing a baseline and, over time, identifying patterns of practice that point to opportunities for the exchanges to improve efforts to serve their diverse consumer populations...
@huffpostgay Is there no concern regarding privacy? I feel like some people may be apprehensive about giving that out despite HIPAA.
End LGBT invisibility in health care now -- do ask, do tell! http://huff.to/13jePAN
Big data meets adult content http://www.fiercebigdata.com/story/big-data-meets-pornography/2013-02-19?utm_campaign=TwitterEditor-FierceCIO
#EHR rollout could be problematic for #LGBT patients - FierceEMR http://ow.ly/hJn1j
Does your dermatologist need access to your reproductive health history? Can you limit access to the psychiatric notes in your chart once they have been entered into your provider’s new electronic health record (EHR) system? It sounds absurd, but the adoption of EHRs and health information exchanges could enable this level of access in the future.
Fraud, porn and healthcare privacy breaches http://su.pr/1C9d4r #doctors #socialmedia #healthcare
