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Manage My Health will begin notifying patients affected by ransomware attack by 5pm Thursday - but some providers have already told their patients
Patients asking whether GPs failed in their own "due diligence"
Some GP clinics advising patients to cancel Manage My Health registrations
GP clinics are scrambling to advise their worried patients in the ongoing fallout from the Manage My Health ransomware attack, with hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive records at risk.
In its latest update at 5pm on Wednesday, the company said it would begin notifying affected patients within the next 24 hours and hoped to complete this process by early next week.
Notifications would be sent initially through email to the address that was used to register the account, and would include an 0800 number to call "for support and assistance".
MMH had been liaising with Health New Zealand, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, General Practice NZ, and GP practices "to ensure patients receive clear, consistent information and do n
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