Laboratory Informatics Approaches to Improving Care for Gender- Diverse Patients

Michelle Stoffel; Hung S Luu; Matthew D Krasowski

doi:10.1016/j.cll.2024.07.007

Laboratory Informatics Approaches to Improving Care for Gender- Diverse Patients

Clin Lab Med. 2024 Dec;44(4):575-590. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2024.07.007. Epub 2024 Aug 21.

Authors

Michelle Stoffel¹, Hung S Luu², Matthew D Krasowski³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Fairview Health Services, 601 25th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA. Electronic address: stoff129@umn.edu.
² Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Children's Medical Center of Dallas, 1935 Medical District Drive, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Health Care, 200 Hawkins Drive C-671 GH, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

PMID: 39490117
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2024.07.007

Abstract

Improving care for gender-diverse (GD) patients necessitates developing informatics tools and approaches to support optimal laboratory testing. This requires increased functionality and standardization of laboratory information system/electronic health record and data collection processes. Data tailored to accommodate immediate clinical care and clinical decision support (CDS) also have an impact on interoperability and downstream data needs for patients. Informatics tools can shape the clinical care experience for GD patients by careful design of laboratory-patient interactions.

Keywords: Clinical care; Gender identity; Informatics; Interoperability; Laboratory testing; Sexual orientation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Clinical Laboratory Information Systems*
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Electronic Health Records*
Female
Humans
Male
Medical Informatics