While various city departments received praise for the progress they have made over the last five years on collecting LGBTQ demographic data, San Francisco's health department came under pointed criticism at a supervisors hearing Thursday for its continued problems in gathering the sexual orientation and gender identity of the patients it serves.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported in April, in a story about the departments' fiscal year 2019-2020 reports on their SOGI data collection efforts, the Department of Public Health submitted a six-page update with very little usable LGBTQ demographic information.
It cited its switching to a new electronic records-keeping system called Epic during the 2018-2019 fiscal year and having to