Aug 22, 2017
Electronic medical records were not designed with transgender people in mind. Clinicians at the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health are working to change that.
The EQUALITY Study was a multi-site, PCORI-funded study that concluded in 2016. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Howard County General Hospital, along with two sites in Boston, investigated the question of how best to collect sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) information from patients in an emergency medicine setting. The phases of the study looked at both the collection methods to capture the data and which staff role (registration or clinicians) was best suited to collect the information.