P.E.I. data cleanup clears up thousands of names from provincial patient registry

Hundreds of Prince Edward Islanders were assigned to medical homes in July and thousands were removed from the patient registry through a data cleanup process. In all, the number on the registry fell from 38,623 early in July to 34,975 at the end of the month, representing about 20% of the Island's population. The bulk of those removed were temporary foreign workers. Other people were removed from the list because they moved out of province or died. This isn’t the first time data cleanup resulted in a dramatic drop in the size of the P.E.I. registry. A cleanup in 2020 saw about 3,500 names deleted.