LGBTQ+ health
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Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, health information systems director, Los Angeles LGBT Center, and 2024 Changemaker Award winner, discusses customizing digital intake systems to allow LGBTQ+ patients to enter SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) data.
Folx will be an in-network provider with payers Blue Shield of California, Cigna, Evernorth, Optum in Colorado and Florida, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.
The nonprofit will utilize Pear's platform to empower employers, health plans and healthcare organizations to address the needs of the LGBTQ+ community.
The company plans to release additional modules that cover more in-depth topics, such as how to care for transgender patients.