Mercy Health Systems Data Breach (2013)

According to an August 13 letter signed by Chante Tindal, Compliance Generalist: on January 14, MHSs transcription contractor, Allscripts, reported a missing unencrypted hard drive containing patient information. MHS says this was reported to them on February 14, and it is not clear to whom Allscripts reported the situation on January 14 nor why it took a month to alert MHS that the drive was missing.