Medical record fallout from Trump’s executive orders
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: How an executive order on gender identity impacts electronic health records.
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In March, an office at the federal health department announced it would not enforce requirements that electronic health records have fields to record and exchange patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity. The new standards, which have been in development for several years, were set to be enforced by January 1 next year. The move is an effort to comply with President Trump’s executive order that called for federal agencies to reject the concept of gender identity and “recognize two sexes, male and female.”
