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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: red;"><b>Effective February 3, 2025:
</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In Epic<b>,
</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">gender identity is used to describe a person’s own internal, deeply held sense of gender. Gender identity doesn’t always correspond to the patient’s sex assigned at birth
or legal sex. To help efficiently and respectfully collect this information, two more gender identities are available for selection in Epic: <b>Nonbinary
</b>and <b>Genderqueer</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Use the link below to review all terminology regarding sexual orientation and gender identity:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><b><u><a href="https://www.upstate.edu/training/intra/epic/documents/sexual_orientation_gender_identification_1.pdf" id="OWA7b08b313-91c4-891b-a61c-d52fef8bfc80" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.upstate.edu/training/intra/epic/documents/sexual_orientation_gender_identification_1.pdf" data-ogsc="" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192); margin: 0px;">Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identification</a></u></b></span></p>
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