Referrer and referrer id in patient_data tabl

vambati wrote on Thursday, November 17, 2011:

there are referrer and referrer id columns in patient_data table where do I populate these? I don’t see any where in demographics or any where that I can populate these columns. any idea?

Thank you
venkat

bradymiller wrote on Friday, November 18, 2011:

Hi,

Those columns don’t seem to be used in OpenEMR. This is related to a bug that needs to be dealt with (currently is a bit of confusion to where the referral provider and primary provider for a patient is stored in OpenEMR):
http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Active_Projects#Assigned_Provider_ID_and_Referring_Provider_ID_conflict_bug

-brady