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by nradov 1499 days ago
Medical software used in the US classifies Hispanic as an ethnic group, not a race. Those are separate fields in a patient's chart. Here is the official federal government guideline.

https://www.healthit.gov/isa/taxonomy/term/741/uscdi-v2

https://www.healthit.gov/isa/taxonomy/term/746/uscdi-v2

(I'm not claiming that this is an optimal approach, just pointing out how it works in most software today.)

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Yes, but socially when you ask people their race they will say black or hispanic or white. And with little consitency. It is more of a way to justify and impose social classes.