Brian,
You bring up a good question and my gut answer would be "no" simply because once anything has been done by any one person, even if they are no longer with you, you would always want them to be tracked and known for what did in the past. At one point they were part of you office and staff and prbably did some amount of work in the system. Now for some "extra ID" you may have created that you no longer use, you may be able to do the old update that ID and enter all new info for that ID and use if to enter your next new ID you care to create.
We do this for patient charts that never got started. If the chart is completely empty of any and all infor execpt for basic demographics, we re-use that chart number by starting the next few patient by re-doing all info in the demographics and page and then, bang, that new patient now has that chart number. But obviously this is a work around for only totally empty charts.
