The three-week saga of a cyberattack disrupting normal operations for one of the Dayton area’s major hospital systems appears to be at an end.
This situation arguably affected more of our readers than any other story in the past few weeks.
Kettering Health isn’t alone. The HIPPA Journal reported earlier this year that 2024 was an “annus horribilis" for health-care data breaches. While there appears to have been a slight reduction in the number of reported data breaches of 500 or more records, the number of individuals affected rose considerably, the journal said.
In this newsletter:
The onMain development may be on its way.
A downtown residential pioneer embarks on his next chapter.
Sinclair to spend millions on AI instruction.
Kettering Health says it has achieved stability
Resolution? Three weeks after a cyberattack caused a system-wide technology outage at Kettering Health, the hospital organization was able to reach a sense of normalcy and stability with its operations.
MyChart: Bringing back access to the online patient portal MyChart and its phone lines for its call centers were some of the last steps in the approximately 21-day recovery process. This was about how long Kettering Health leaders said it could take.
Many hospitals bounced back quickly after the pandemic, while others are back to the financial challenges they faced prior to the pandemic, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis of hospital network financial data.
Why it matters: More than 50% of Ohio hospitals, and 72% of rural hospitals, reported negative operating margins over the past few years, according to the Ohio Hospital Association.
“They’re still on thin ice,” Dr. Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute, said of rural hospitals.
Approval: Developers have Dayton Plan Board approval to construct the first building on the former Montgomery County Fairgrounds property — the Think Dayton offices that the group says will create something new.
‘Knowledge’ campus: onMain (and yes, I am intentionally not capitalizing that first letter), the group redeveloping the old fairgrounds, wants to create a distinctive, walkable urban environment that will be home to “knowledge economy” jobs where skilled workers and other community members can gather, live and play.
Downtown development pioneer Charles Simms sells business to his sons
Housing developer Charles Simms is arguably on the list of the 10 or so people who have had the greatest impact on downtown Dayton in the past decade-plus. If you’ve lived or worked downtown since 2010, you have seen his company’s work.
The latest: Simms, whose company started a downtown Dayton residential boom, spoke with me recently about his decision to sell his development company to his sons, Robi and Crosby.
Sinclair to spend $5 million to advance AI learning
AI boost: Sinclair Community College will spend $5 million over three years to ensure courses teach artificial intelligence and help students learn how to use AI in the workplace.
What they’re saying: “We have to do things with AI faster than we would typically adapt new technologies,” said Christina Amato, dean of Sinclair’s eLearning division.
Contact me: Thanks for being here, as always. Tell me about your business at tom.gnau@coxinc.com or at X and Bluesky. I’m also on LinkedIn and on our Dayton Business page, with my colleagues. Find me as well on my Facebook page here.
Pins Mechanical Co., located at 416 E. First St. in Dayton, is a social playground offering duckpin bowling, classic pinball machines, patio pong and more.
Three weeks after a cyberattack caused a system-wide technology outage at Kettering Health, the hospital organization was able to reach a sense of normalcy and stability with its operations.
As hospitals received an influx of public funds during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep up with significant hospitalizations, some were already struggling on razor thin or negative operating margins. Many hospitals bounced back quickly after the pandemic, while others are back to the financial challenges they had prior to the pandemic.
The owners of Meadowlark Restaurant and Wheat Penny Oven & Bar are opening a new breakfast and lunch restaurant this fall in the Dietz Block building on Wayne Avenue.
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