OpenEMR 7 Patient Finder

Patient Finder

The Patient Finder is the primary tool with which a patient's record is located. It may be called different things in different OpernEMR versions but it is usually the 2nd item on the Main Menu (arrow above).

In the standard issue OpenEMR Patient Finder provides a limited choice of search terms. With this technique you can add any field found in the patient Demographics data.

Here's a quick HOWTO on modifying the search columns accepted by the Patient Finder. The method works on all versions back to the 4.x's.

You need Administrator privileges to do this and it would probably help if you have some IT experience since you'll be identifying database fields.

HOWTO:_Change_Search_Columns_in_Patient_Finder

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