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A report released late Friday by New Jersey’s health commissioner, Mary O’Dowd, recommends that the state require that all hospitals, public and private, for-profit and non-profit, publish their quarterly unaudited financial statements on their websites within 45 days of each quarter’s end, and their annual audits within 180 days of the close of a hospital’s fiscal year.

Physicians attempting to log in to the Open Payments website to verify information reported about them ahead of that information being made public are encountering a cumbersome log-in process and confusing error messages, reports ProPublica.

The annual survey of hospital safety and quality by the non-profit Leapfrog Group and Castlight Health finds improvement and increased participation by hospitals, but also reflects a “surprisingly high variance” in high-risk procedure survival rates and hospital-acquired injury and infection rates.

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, is launching an accreditation program tailored to accountable care organizations and related IT service organizations.

The National Institutes of Health has developed the National Drug Early Warning System so health experts can quickly respond to potential outbreaks of illegal drugs, like heroin, and identify increased use of designer synthetic compounds.

The Englewood, Colorado-based mega hospital and healthcare non-profit network Catholic Health Initiatives is continuing to expand vertically as well as horizontally with its latest move to create a wholly-owned subsidiary called Prominence Health that will oversee its commercial and Medicare Advantage health-insurance plans, networks of care and related products.

One of the nation’s largest hospital engagement networks (HENs) is the more than 1,500-member HEN operated by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and its Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET). In its first 28 months of operation, it says it saved more than $1.3 billion by reducing the incidence of preventable harm, readmissions and infections, as well as the incidence of early elective deliveries.