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Wednesday, 17 December 2014 |
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January 25, 2015
Policy
-NCCAM-"Alternative
Medicine" is Dead, Long Live NCCIH-"Integrative Health"
-AIHM
Urges NCCIH to Remain True to Mandated Diversity in the Make-up of its Advisory
Council
 Briggs:oversees name change at NCCAM
Natural Products
-Hatch
and Harkin Anoint Heinrich as the Next Democratic Leader on Supplements
-American
Botanical Council: Update on Adulterants Program
Integrative Medicine
-Seattle
Children's Hospital Boasts Inpatient Acupuncture Program
-From Google Alerts:Links to Integrative
Medicine in Health Systems, Communities and Internationally from November 2014
-Quick Links to Integrative Health News in Medical Systems and
Communities: December 2014
Primary
Care
-AANP's
Natural Medicine Journal Offers
Multiple Voices on Primary Care
-Center
for Optimal Integration Builds Content on Integrative PCMHs and FQHCs
-Group
Promotes Broad Scope Chiropractic via "First Chiropractic Physician Association
of America"
-Michael
Cohen: "Integrative Medicine Physicians Must Decide if You Embrace, or Disclaim
Primary Care"
Education/Academics
-U
Toronto Engages Inter-institutional Relationship with Canadian Memorial
Chiropractic College
-ICIM
Promotes New Integrative Medicine Fellowship
-AOMA:
First AOM Single Purpose School to Achieve Regional Accreditation Gains 10 Year
Re-Affirmation
Organizations/Professions
-American
Academy of Medical Acupuncturists Passes Resolution on Dry Needling
-Integrative
Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US) Receives $150,000 Samueli Foundation
Commitment
-Foundation
for Chiropractic Progress Nets $100,000 Match Grant from Standard Process
-Calls for
Comments:
AAAOM's Competency Model for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Education
.jpg "Image") Estimates an awful deathrate from regular medicine
--EUROCAM
Takes on Role of CAM in Microbial Resistance
Global
News Quick Links in Traditional, Alternative and Integrative Health: December
2014
-United
Nations Declares June 21 International Day of Yoga
-Canadian
IN-CAM and Global ISCMR Explore Merger
Looking Forward, Looking Back
-Michael
Cohen's Top 5 Legal Issues for Integrative Medicine Practitioners in 2015
-The
Integrator Blog Offers Top 10 for
Integrative Policy and Action for 2014
People
-Gail
Christopher, DN Receives Top Grantmakers in Health Award
-Acupuncture and Public Health Leader Sommers in Book on AIDs
January 25, 2015
In
2006, I began publishing, on or near the winter solstice, an annual
Integrator Top
10 list for the emerging field of integrative health and medicine.
Together these chronicle nine years of policy and action in this popular
movement.
Here is the Coming of the Light Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action
in Integrative Health and Medicine for 2014 noting the work of the
Joint Commission, the VA, the massage field, the (shocking) emergence of
health as a theme in medicine, a US Senator named Thad Cochran (get
used to him), a project on the economics of care, plus more. (This column was first published here in the Huffington Post, with now over 850 likes and 250 FB pushes.
January 5, 2015
This new monthly Integrator feature is now
developed in partnership with the web presence of the peer-reviewed and
indexed Global Advances in Health and Medicine. It represents a quick
capture of highlights
from a multitude of sources relative to dynamic developments globally in
alternative and integrative heath due to such factors as the World
Health Organization's past and recent traditional Medicine Strategy,
economics, expanding globalization and the uptake of integrative
medicine and health models. Here are 21 selections from India, Turkey,
Qatar, Pakistan, Malaysia, England, Australia, Russia and elsewhere for
December 2014.
January 5, 2015
 Quick Links to Integrative Health News in Medical Systems and Communities: December
2014
This
typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of highlights
from the multitude of stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to
"integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." Once a month I cull through and make some selections. Recently the field's cup
seems to be running over. This is in
part due to my use of a broader inclusion net for what I am selections. Here are 15 selections
related to hospitals and medical organizations and integrative medicine, 13 from
alternative and integrative medicine in community non-system practices and
media for December 2014. (Note that: Global News Links are now separately posted.)
December 17, 2014
Policy
-Joint
Commission Elevates Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Massage and Relaxation in Pain
Care in Response to Integrative Team
-Herb
Industry Pleased with Pallone as New House Commerce Minority Leader
-Educating
Oregon's Medical Home Policy Leaders on Integrative Medicine and Health
-British
Agency Urges Homebirths for Uncomplicated Pregnancies
Costs
-Website on Cost Studies Offered via ACCAHC's Project for Integrative
Health and the Triple Aim (PIHTA)
Integrative Services
-Survey of AIHM Attendees Finds 67% of Integrative Practitioners Using or
Planning to Use Telemedicine
-Silver
Linings: Update on the Closure of Pathways to Wellness from Beth Sommers, LAc,
MPH, PhD
-Reiki Gets a Little Respect in U.S. News and World Reports
- From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in
Health Systems and Communities from November 2014
Academics
-Update: The IFM-Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program
-Maryland University of Integrative Health and National College of
Natural Medicine Announce Partnership
-Bastyr Initiates MPH and Two Additional Public Health Degrees
Research
-Not
Exactly What We Anticipated Department: NCCAM GMOs Yeast into
Opioids
Professions & Organizations
-Breakthrough Agreement between State Massage Therapy Boards and National
Certifying Group
-Professional Self-Care:
Chiropractors Promote Bill to Improve Chiropractic Medicare
Documentation
-From Holism to Love: Marking the Transition of the 36 Year-Old AHMA into
the Emerging AIHM
-Wikipedia and Homeopathy: Ullman Makes Case for that Prejudice in Its
Whole Form is Rampant
Miscellaneous
-Say What? Average Office
Visit Lengthens Over Past 20 Years
-Consumers-Practitioners
Together: Ann Fonfa's 9th Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Cancer
Therapies Conference
December 15, 2014
 Cass: taking functional medicine to England
This
typically monthly Integrator
feature
is a quick capture of highlights from the multitude of links that flow in daily
via Google Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine" and "alternative medicine." Recently the
field's cup seems to be running over. Tremendous level of news and developments.
This is in part due to my use of a broader inclusion net for what I am
selecting. At the same time, the activity level suggests that those who believe
the movement is headed toward a "tipping point" may have something.
Here are 15 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 10 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices and media, and 21 developments from around the world for November 2014.
December 9, 2014
[This article was first published here at the Huffington Post.] A Nov. 12, 2014 announcement from the principal accrediting agency for
health care organizations could significantly impact access to
integrative pain care throughout the United States. The agency is the Joint Commission. The revised accreditation standard
will apply to all the institutions under the agency's guidance and
review: hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, home health and senior
homes. The focus of the change is great news for integrative
health and medicine. The Joint Commission significantly elevated the
potential value of "non-pharmacologic" approaches. Among those options
directly called out are, in the terms used by the Joint Commission,
acupuncture therapy, massage therapy, chiropractic therapy, osteopathic
manipulative treatment, physical therapy, and relaxation therapy. The action was prompted by an
integrative team led by Arya Nielsen, PhD, Ac.
November 26, 2014
Policy
-Republican
Senate Win Sweeps Key Integrative Health Leaders from Powerful Roles
-IHPC
Opens Much Needed CoverMyCare Campaign for Consumers on Non-Discrimination in
Health Care
-IHPC
on HHS Missing Deadline for Response to US Senate Demand That It Follow
Congressional Intent on Non-Discrimination in Health Care
 -Veteran's
Health Administration Initiates Integrative Health Coordinating Council to Set
System-wide Plan via Gaudet's Office
-Does
the Concept of the Commons Have a Role in the Future of Integrative Health and
Medicine?
-The
Bridge to Health Creation through "Community Development" Workers/Organizers
Integrative Centers
-Former
Scripps Integrative Leader Mimi Guarneri Opens Pacific Pearl in La Jolla,
Consults on Huge Atlantic Health
-From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and
Communities from October 2014
Academic Health
-Touchstone/Wilder:
Footholds for Integrative Health in the National Center for Interprofessional
Practice and Education
-Community
Clinical Training Programs at Southern California University and Canadian
College of Naturopathic Medicine Noted in IOM Report
Resources
-Society
for Integrative Oncology Publishes Practice Guidelines/Report Care for
Integrative Breast Cancer Therapies
-CAHCIM
and SIO Team Up to Publish Monograph on Integrative Cancer Care Via NCI's
Journal
-New
Text on Integrative Nurse Coaching by Dossey-Luck-Shaub Trio
-Integrator Editor John Weeks Posts
Regular News via Center for Optimal Integration: Creating Health and ACCAHC Facebook Pages
Organizations
-NCCAOM
Steps Up to Fill National Leadership Gap for the Acupuncture Profession
-Breakdown
on Turn-out for the First Conference of the Planned Multidisciplinary Academy
of Integrative Health and Medicine
-Bravewell-Funded
Duke Program in Leadership in Integrative Health Has Triple the Target
Applicants
-Veterans
Health Administration Joins Consortium of Academic Health Centers for
Integrative Medicine
-Campaign
Underway to Create ISHAR as Wikipedia-like Archive of Energy Medicine
Information and Research
Professions
-The White Folks Hate the Black Folks
Department: The AAFP's Formal Position against Naturopathic Physicians
-IAYT
Focuses on Clarifying the Distinction between a Yoga Teacher and a Yoga
Therapist
People
Leading
Whole Systems Researcher and Dr. Rogers' Prize Winner Marja Verhoef, PhD
Retires
November 25, 2014
[This article was first published here at the Huffington Post and has 103 likes and 41 FB shares as of November 25, 2014.] That
integrative health and medicine would lose its top champion in
the past 20 years, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), was one foregone
conclusion of the 2014 Congressional election. Harkin had announced
plans to retire. His contributions have been immeasurable. The
shock to national politics regarding complementary medicine and
integrative health is that the new Republican majority in the United
States Senate will remove from their power positions two additional U.S.
Senators: Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). These are
the two elected officials who, after Harkin, have been the movement's
most passionate and effective advocates. What for instance will happen
to funding for the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)?
November 25, 2014
[This article was written for the Huffington Post and is available here with 245 likes and 78 FB shares as of November 25, 2014.] Integrative medicine and complementary health practices and
professionals have been listed in some pain guidelines of the dominant
school of medicine since at least 1999. Usually they are buried, a last
resort. If all else fails, try acupuncture. If all else fails, see a chiropractor. A new 8-page, policy brief, Never
Only Opioids: The Imperative for Early Integration of
Non-Pharmacological Approaches and Practitioners in the Treatment of
Patients with Pain argues that it is long past time for the last to
be first - to reverse this order and always bring integrative care
options up front, as least as complements. A media release is here.st important for the transformation of pain care, the paper comes with a separate set of 13 Recommendations
to leverage change: for Educators (3), Federal Agencies (3), Delivery
Systems (4) and Research Funders (4)
The paper is the product of a major national coalition involving over 40 organizations, the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS). Included in this document are
aspects of the Affordable Care Act that promote and support such a
shift.
November 9, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." This month the field's cup ranneth over.
Tremendous level of news and developments. This is in part due to my
use of a broader inclusion net of what I am selecting. At the same time,
the activity level suggests that those who believe the movement is
headed toward a "tipping point" may have something. Here
are 25 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 10 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices and media, and 25 developments from around the world for September
2014.
October 12, 2014
Policy
-"Never
Only Opioids" Policy Brief: The Imperative for Early Use of
Non-Pharmacological, Approaches and Practitioners in Pain Care
-Former
Army Surgeon General Schoomaker: The Two Reasons There is an "Imperative" for
Integrative Health and Medicine in the Civilian Care in the U.S.
-Act
Now! IHPC Urges Member to Support HR 4887, Expanding Care to Veteran's Act
-Naturopathic
Doctors Score Additional US Senate Endorsement of Naturopathic Medicine Week
-Honoring
the Immeasurable Contributions of Retiring Integrative Medicine Champion U.S.
Senator Tom Harkin
Integrative
Practices
-Cleveland
Clinic Announces Partnership with the Institute for Functional Medicine
-Richard Sarnat and the AMI Group: Update on a Trailblazing Data Producer
for the Integrative Health and Medicine Field
-Cheng-Tsui
Integrated Care Center: "Imbedded" in ACO and Emergent PCMH at Harvard
Research
-NCCAM Announces
$21.7-million Project with the VA and Their Families
-Multidisciplinary
Group Co-led by Ben Kligler, MD Secures PCORI Grant to Look at Group
Acupuncture to Address Health Disparities
Publications
-Kreitzer-Saper
team to serve as co-editors for Global
Advances in Health and Medicine Journal
-Explore Commentary: Is
there a "Town and Gown" Split Related to Science and Evidence in Integrative
Medicine?
Academic Medicine
-Kreitzer's U Minnesota Center Brings in Bronfort, Evans
via $500,000 NCMIC Grant to Create Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research
Program
-Maryland University of Integrative Health Launches
First Doctorate Programs
-Snapshot: Phoenix's Southwest College Naturopathic
Medicine Boasts Record Enrollment
Professions
-Naturopathic
Doctors, Integrative Medicine Consortium and Alliance for Natural Health Weigh
in on Compounding Pharmacies
People
-Jan Schwartz, MA,
BCTMB, recognized as Educator of the Year by the Massage Therapy Foundation
-Integrative Health
Leader Mary Jo Kreitzer Honored among Minnesota's Most Influential Women
October 4, 2014
his typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." Here
are 13 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 12 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices and media, and 13 developments from around the world for September
2014.
September 27, 2014
The movement for complementary and alternative medicine is famous for its consumer base. In
the context of this grassroots uprising of interest, singling out the
historic contributions of one person seems inappropriate. Yet for
complementary and integrative health policy and inclusion, there is
such a giant. This person has flipped open so many switches to cast
light on new, health-focused methods and practices that mere human
decency suggests we take time to honor him in this, the year of his
retirement.
IThis person is integrative health and medicine champion Tom Harkin, the
senior U.S. Senator from Iowa. He promotes this movement as an
instrument of his larger vision to create a "wellness society" in lieu of what he calls our present "sick care system." (This article was first published on September 27 here in the Huffington Post.)
September 22, 2014
On September 15, 2014, an article in Crain's Cleveland Business
propelled news of this pioneering program nationally. The move by the
highly-regarded Cleveland Clinic is not merely a dabbling in functional
practices. Rather, it's a full partnership with IFM. According to the release from the Cleveland Clinic,
IFM's chief medical officer Patrick Hanaway, MD will be on the ground
in Cleveland with best-selling author Hyman also serving in leadership.
Integrative center consultant Glenn Sabin wonders whether this is a "tipping point" for the field. (Note: This article was first posted here on Seprtember 22, at the Huffington Post. That post includes a useful response from Institute for Functional Medicine.
September 14, 2014
Policy
-Is any other organization or group
also considering "a big honking lawsuit" on Section 2706?
-Applying
a Health Lens to Decision-Making in Non-Health Sectors: in-laying "health performance measures"
Research
-Samueli,
IONS, Chopra and MIRAGLO team to create collaborative think tank to forward
Biofield Science Research
Business News
-GreenSurace takes a strange membership
strategy to build health plan for "alternative medicine"
-Class
action lawsuit filed against Whole Foods to stop sale of homeopathic medicines
-Emerging
integrated practice department: CVS officially ends sales of cigarettes in all
of its stores
-American Botanical Council reports herbal sales up 7.9% in 2013
Academic Health
-Arizona Center awarded $1.7 million
HRSA grant to develop integrative medicine in primary care
-Massage educators and institutions
collaborate for major Educational Congress, July 2015, Minnneapolis
-Parker Serves: remarkable community program at a
chiropractic university
-NYCC,
SCUHS, and Logan recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as "Great
Places to Work For"
-Huntington
College of Health Sciences offers Doctor of Health Science in Integrative
Healthcare
Integrative
Practice
-Interprofessionalism:
teaching acupuncturists to work with doctors regarding brain chemistry
-What
Wayne Jonas shared with Grantmakers in Health in a March 2014 plenary address
on "Giving Healing a -Voice"
-From
Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems, Communities and
Internationally
Organizations
-Data on acupuncture profession from
the 2013 Job Task Analysis of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine
-AIHM
offers certification in integrative health for executives and administrators
-National Consortium gathering endorses
Job Task Analysis for health/wellness coaches
-IAYT
is taking steps to develop a certification program for yoga therapists
-Institute
of Integrative Health moves into health and wellness offerings for its Maryland
community
-American
Holistic Medical Association offers live streaming of historic (sold-out)
conference to students and practitioners of all types, September 18-21
Opportunity
-IFM
hiring a new director of medical education; Susan Samueli Center for
Integrative Medicine seeks director
People
-Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO selected as AANP Physician of the Year
-Early University of Washington integrative medicine leader Nassim Assefi, MD
curator of stage content at TEDMED
September 13, 2014
Integrator adviser and columnist Michael Levin read the brief in the August 2014 Integrator Round-up entitled "Hospital group begins
campaign promoting its role disease as an economic engine." The
subject is an organization of U.S. hospitals and academic health
centers, the Coalition to Protect America's Health Care (CPAH).
The organization was created to protect economic life as hospitals know
it. Their strategy leads with calling attention to the jobs they create
and their economic impact on communities. I questioned whether this
strategy is ethical of nominally "healthcare" organizations. Levin, the
founder of the Health Business Strategies consultancy,
dives into CPAH and share details: over $14-million of marketing and
lobbying revenues from 2011-2013. He particularly notes the role of
academic health centers in this self-protective work.
September 3, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." Here
are 8 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 3 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices, and 7 developments from around the world for August
2014.
August 26, 2014
Policy
-Whole System
Health: Consider donating to the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of former
CMS administrator Don Berwick, MD!
-American Herbal
Products Association urges lawmakers to include "CAM" in new veteran's
legislation
Research
-NCCAM-ipedia: agency
responds (sort-of) to corrective appeal on acupuncture and chronic pain
-Regarding
Christine Goertz, PhD, the "licensed integrative health practitioner" on the
PCORI board of governors
-NCCAM advisor
Jane Guiltinan, ND and Bastyr University on the NCCAM's proposed name change
Integrative Practice
-Naturopathic
research group
publishes data on naturopathic primary
care based on 300,000 patient visits at teaching clinics
-Michael Cohen offers
thorough exploration of "fee-splitting" in integrative practice for FON
Therapeutics
-From
Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities
from July 2014
Academic medicine
-Health reform
stimulates U Minnesota to offer Masters in Integrative Health and Wellbeing
Coaching
-Without
Medicare, naturopathic doctors offer residencies to 17% of graduates
Organizations
-The 213
professionals certificated by the Institute of Functional Medicine
-APHA gives elevates
complementary/integrative/traditional medicine group to section status
-Hospital group begins
campaign promoting its role disease as an economic engine
-American Acupuncture
Council offers seminars to bring acupuncturists up to speed on insurance
changes under the Affordable Care Act
Professions
-American
Herbalists Guild celebrating its 25th year
-Nutritionists
win first battle, in Michigan, following federal opening to non-RD
nutritionists
-Naturopathic
organizations to form World Naturopathic Federation with sights on W.H.O.
People
-John Tew, MD
selected to head University of Cincinnati integrative medicine
-Chris Cassirer,
PhD named president at Northwestern Health Sciences University
-Lynda Balneaves
selected as founding director of the U Toronto Centre for Integrative Medicine
August 8, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." Interesting to see in one months
strong pieces supporting lifestyle for cardio risk, "CAM" during
treatment for brain surgery, and "CAM" for MS. Also a number of
announcements of new IM centers or clinics in health systems. Here
are 17 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations in
integrative medicine, 11 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices, and 8 developments from around the world for June 26-July 31.
2014.
July 20, 2014
Policy
-CMS gives Certified Nutrition Specialists
(CNS) parity with RDs for delivering hospital nutrition
-Getting
consumers active on Section 2706: IHPC to roll-out CoverMyCare campaign
-IHPC's thorough response to HHS on practitioner
and consumer experiences relative to Non-Discrimination in Health Care
Academic Health and Medicine
-Duke opens applications for Leadership
Program in Integrative Healthcare - scholarship advertised
-International Association of Yoga Therapists announces its first accredited
yoga therapy programs
Research
-NIH NCCAM 2.0: Taylor Walsh reports
on the renaming dialogue at NCCAM's June 2014 National Advisory Council meeting
-NCCAM's Dr. Edwards' reflects on the posters at the International Research
Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health
Integrative Practice
-Exit interview: Peter Amato to shut
down Scranton's pioneering, 17-year-old Inner Harmony Wellness Center
-Susan
Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine seeks new director
-From Google Alerts: Integrative Medicine in Health Systems,
Communities and Internationally for June 2014
Employers and Payment
-Link-up! New Linked-in group
explores opportunities for integrative health and medicine in emerging payment
models
-Trek Bicycles announces integrative employee health center
-Does measurement of "patient
experience" in the Triple Aim parallel the limited meaning of
"prevention" in health system outcomes?
Perspectives
-Bethany Hayes, MD comments on "medical industry" influences on
integrative health and medicine practices
-Additional note on the "medical
industry" and use of language from Beth Sommers, LAc, PhD
Preventive treatment: when doctors are "more like a life insurance
sales team"
Organizations
-New Academy of Integrative Health and
Medicine (AIHM) broadens its leadership team: Wisneski, Snider and Weeks join
board
Miscellaneous
-Larry Dossey, MD's latest book - the
exceptional One Mind
-Dr. Oz on the Congressional hot-seat on
weight-loss claims
People
-Dawn Hague, LMT is new chair of the Commission
on Massage Therapy Accreditation
-Marcia Prenguber, ND the new chair of naturopathic medicine at University of
Bridgeport
July 13, 2014
Chronicles of Health Creation: Exit Interview with Integrative Medicine Clinic Pioneer Peter Amato
After 17 years in the integrative medicine tough-lands of coal country
Scranton, Pennsylvania, Peter Amato is calling it quits with his
ground-breaking Inner Harmony Wellness Center. On July 31, 2014 the
clinic will provide the last of an estimated 34,000 patient visits. The
immediate cause is the loss of two integrative medical doctors. The
final tally: 7 years in the red, 3 in the black and 6 at break even.
Amato reflects on his highlights and low-lights of his various models,
his relationship with a Mercy hospital that became part of a for-profit,
and a productive stint as chair of a policy arm of Andy Weil, MD's
growing empire in the late 1990s when he had a hand in vastly increasing
NCCAM's funding. The heavy lifting of finding,
training, and moving new integrative docs converged with some "soul
searching" about his next life steps to prompt the change. [This article was first prepared for the Huffington Post.]
July 13, 2013
Re-Naming NCCAM: Taylor Walsh Covers Discussion of "NCRCI" at the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The proposed re-naming of the NIH National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine is a powerful cultural moment for the field.
In this article, Integrator columnist and integrative health and
medicine consultant Taylor Walsh documents the dialogue on the topic at
the June 2014 meeting of the - what may soon also be renamed - National
Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Here are
views of Josephine Briggs, MD, Brian Berman, MD, Tracy Gaudet, MD, Scott
Haldeman., MD, DC, Dan Cherkin, PhD, and others. Fine job from Walsh.
The Integrator comments touch on: the limits of the dialogue
since the non-MD "CAM" profession representation has been reduced to 6%
of those on the Council; whether "integrative" is a term most
recognizable to consumers; and whether "erasing the conflicts" that may
come when "complementary" or (heaven forbid) "alternative" is in the
title may also be airbrushing our history.
June 27, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from the multitude for links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." The gem here is discovering thw
existence of the "Reflexology Section" of the Chamber of Commerce and
Industry in Slovenia. While my original focus was on integrative
medicine in health systems, the later search term
often nets developments from
around the world. Here
are 11 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations in
integrative medicine, 7 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices, and 16 developments from around the world for June 1-26.
2014.
June 15, 2014
When I mentioned to a colleague my odd feelings
in writing a newsletter piece about the Lifetime Achievement Living
Tribute Award and wonderful book of 150+ tributes presented to me at the
gala of the International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and
Health, she said simply: "Let your freak flag fly!" I've taken her
suggestion. It turns out that day included threat of cancer (not),
association with a Samurai Data Poet, visits of family, living and dead,
an affinity with Scrooge mcDuck, and more, all of which I share here.
If you'd rather see the book, just click here. In Living Tribute: John Weeks, The Integrator - Three Decades as an Integrative Health Connector, Crusader
and Chronicler. Thanks, each of you Integrator reader people who had a hand in this - and many did!
June 15, 2014
Policy
-IHPC with 15 Partner Organizations Weighs in on NCCAM Name Change, and an
Integrator Response
-A perspective on the reason to keep "alternatives" from Nancy
Gahles, DC, CCH
-Take the Pledge: Don't
say "healthcare system" when describing "disease treatment"
or the medical industry"
Research & Resources
-Josiah Macy Jr Foundation funds ACCAHC Project to Enhance Research Literacy for
Licensed Integrative Health and Medicine Fields
-Terrific plenary webcasts from the International Research Congress on
Integrative Medicine and Health (IRCIMH) available for free
-Khalsa and Weber: NCCAM elevates chiropractic and naturopathic researchers to
key leadership positions
-Capturing the growth of a field: family photo of the naturopathic researcher
community at IRCIMH
Useful Data Points
-Use of "CAM" providers among monthly health and medicine choices for
US citizens
-UPMC leader: "Only about a quarter of what we do has strong evidence and
we only do that about half the time."
International
-World Health Organization approves new traditional medicine strategy
-A taste of international news in traditional, complementary and alternative
medicine
Professions
-Acupuncturists prevail in Oregon battle with chiropractors over dry-needling
-Naturopathic doctors thank World Federation of Chiropractic for hosting them
at the WHO General Assembly
-Christine Goertz, DC, in useful short video and perception surveys about
chiropractors on Quantia MD
Miscellaneous
-From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and
Communities from May 2014
-Ullman
on "nanopharmacoloy" firm HEEL's decision to pull out of the U.S.
market
-Calls for Abstracts: IN-CAM, Oregon NDs in interprofessional
effort, chiropractic leadership conference
People
-Adi Haramati, PhD honored by CAHCIM/ISCMR with special award for his
leadership of international research meetings
-David Wickes, DC selected as new president of Canadian Memorial Chiropractic
College
-Integrator's John Weeks given Lifetime Achievement Living Tribute Award at IRCIMH 2014
June 10, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights from the multitude for links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." While my focus is on integrative
medicine in health systems, the later search term
nets developments from
around the world. Here
are 9 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations in
integrative medicine, 12 from integrative medicine in community
non-system practices, and 10 from around the world for May
2014.
June 8, 2014
Language is a virus,
as Laurie Anderson sings. This column argues that we spread a kind of
sickness when we routinely refer to the form of medical delivery in the
United States as a "healthcare system," which it is not. This is not new
- but what is also true is that neither is what we have a "disease
management system," which in itself is a good an necessary function of
optimal medical delivery if done well. What we have instead is a
"medical industry" driven largely by production and profit. We have
areas where we manage disease well, and also some emerging hope around
focused "health creation." Might a critical step toward an actual system
that produces health be to start practicing a language that is
conscious of which of these we are referencing in any given moment? Here
are some reflections, beginning with a parallel language issue that
mystifies reality amidst the horrible economics in my present home in
Puerto Rico. [This article was first written as a column in Alternative Medicine.]
June 8, 2014
Following an extensive dialogue between many of the best informed
policy leaders in alternative, complementary and integrative health and
medicine, the Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC)
submitted the letter printed here in full to NIH National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine director Josephine Briggs, MD. Briggs had requested public comment
on her proposal that the name be changed to the National Center for
Research in Complementary and Integrative Health. IHPC's 13 Partners
for Health range from massage to integrative medical practice
organizations. Their letter is followed by comments on Integrator wishy-washy behavior on name but clarity on what the mandate still means.
May 24, 2014
Policy
-Three
Federal agencies announced a request for comments on Section 2706, Non-Discrimination
in Health Care-respond by June 1
-AAMC's leading workforce research
conference switches focus from "physician" to "health workforce,"
includes integrative health and medicine disciplines
-RWJF report finds limited impact of Choosing
Wisely campaign in combating the 30% of the medical industry that is waste
Integrative Pain Treatment
-Samueli studies in Pain Medicine
underscore new directions in integrative pain treatment
-U.S. Senate Committee on Veteran's
Affairs examines alternatives to pain drugs
-US Health and Human Services on
combating opioid addictions: Use more drugs!
-Twitter chat on CAM and back pain
produces surprising dismissal of "CAM" from NCCAM tweeter
-Canadian firm urges multidisciplinary
approach to pain treatment, but with limited team
Surveys
-AANP survey of Medicare recipients
finds high interest in use of naturopathic doctors and in non-pharma treatment
-CDC report stimulates flurry of
news accounts on regional trends in "CAM" use
Integrative Care
-Cleveland Clinic Chinese herb program with Crane Herb makes huge waves in
media
-New School in New York City pioneers auricular acupuncture and acupressure in
university setting
Professions
-A snapshot of the size and maturation of the licensed integrative health and
medicine fields
Philanthropic Partners
-Emerson Ecologics grants funds to IHPC's
cost-effectiveness project, Foundations Project and NY NDs
-Health Partners, BCBS and Tufts make
grants to Pathways for Wellness
Academic Health
-IOM
workshop features presentations on community-based integrative health education
led by Southern California University of Health Sciences Robb Russell, DC
-Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine opens clinic in Adelante Health
System
-George Washington University launches online integrative medicine program
-NUHS chiropractor Daniel Straus, DC
chairs Florida medical district board of directors
-Ohio State University (OSU)
integrative medicine program hosts the mindfulness Congressman, Tim Ryan
-National College of Natural Medicine announces Masters in Global Health
Miscellaneous
-Persevering in cause work: Paul Loeb's The Impossible Will Take a Little
While and how "hope is not the same thing as optimism"
April 27, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights from the multitude for links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." While my focus is on integrative
medicine in health systems, the later search term
nets developments from
around the world. Here
are
13 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations in
integrative medicine, 8 from integrative medicine in community
non-system practices, and a half-dozen from around the world for April
2014. The big news this month: the Cleveland Clinic's new herb program,
the CDC data on regional use patterns and the Australian report
concluding there is no value in homeopathy.
April 17, 2014
Integrative Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Health Round-up #78: April 2014
Policy
-VA's integrative pain initiative shows early positives in limiting opioid
dependency
-Is a major threat to integrative medicine practice rolling south and west from
Nova Scotia's medical board?
-IHPC Brings 2706, CAHCIM and Allina to Congressional Briefing on "Easing
the US Healthcare Crisis: The Role of Integrative Health Care"
-Doctors of chiropractic and
naturopathic medicine on National Quality Forum panel
Organizations
-American Academy of Pain Management calls on insurers to cover integrative
approaches as part of team approach to chronic pain
-American Academy of Neurology issues guidelines for CAM and multiple sclerosis
- cannabis high on list
-IN-CAM Research Network announces 10th Anniversary Research Symposium: The
Next Wave
-Massage Therapy Foundation engages research systematic review with Samueli
Institute
-American Public Health Association's "CAM" group changes name
-AHA, hospital transformation and leadership via the CEO of Hospital Corporation
of America: health creation?
Integrative Centers
-From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and
Communities-March 2014
-Chiropractor on integrative practice at the Casey Health Institute's
patient-centered medicine home
-Attorney Michael Cohen offers insights into "fee-splitting" business
strategies in integrative centers
-Guarneri's Pacific Pearl La Jolla officially opens May 10 with top
naturopathic doctors in key clinical roles
Academia
-UCLA Arts and Healing advances leadership in the creative arts/health
connection with series of grants
-Chiropractors form Consortium of Evidence-Informed Practice Educators; LeFebvre
named to head
-$5.5-million grant to bring Vanderbilt into the family of Osher-funded centers;
Northwestern to follow
-Early notice: July 2015 conference on the "Process of Integrating
Evidence (PIE) for CAM Educators"
Professions
-AHMA exploring merging into new Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine
-Trends and "Tremors in the Massage Industry"
-Transition
at AAAOM: Jabbour steps down as president of national acupuncture association
-National Association for Certified Professional Midwives accepted into
International Confederation of Midwives
-Maryland becomes 18th
state to regulate naturopathic doctors
Resources
-ACCAHC, a consortium of integrative health and medicine educators, posts
free presentations, posters, papers, newsletters from 2005-present
-Naturopathic Doctors News & Review releases free, online directory
of 9 years of back issues
-ACCAHC's 2nd edition of heralded text on integrative health disciplines in
team care era available in e-versions, book, and as free PDF
Miscellaneous
-Former FDA official Daniel Fabricant, PhD named to direct Natural Products
Alliance
-Community acupuncturists respond to community stress from the Oso, Washington
mudslides
People
-In Memoriam: Tanya Edwards, MD (1960-2014)
April 11, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature reflects a quick capture of
highlights from the multitude for links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." While my focus is on integrative
medicine in health systems, the later search term
nets developments from
around the world that I began to share for November 2013. Here
are 15 selections related to hospitals and medical organization in
integrative medicine and 8 from the community, for March 2013. Chose to
not include information from around the world this time.
April 10, 2014
[The following was sent as an April 10, 2014 press release from the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC).] Nationwide, hospitals, health systems, medical
homes, employers and insurers are increasingly opening their minds and
work environments to the important contributions of complementary and
integrative health and medicine practitioners in enhancing patient
experience, improving population health and lowering costs.The
second edition of an acclaimed resource guide for these explorations is
now available: ACCAHC has released and updated an improved edition of its acclaimed Clinicians' and Educators' Desk Reference on the Licensed Complementary and Alternative Health Professions.
March 16, 2014
Policy
-Department
of Defense report to Congress details military use of CAM therapies and
practitioners
-NCMIC Foundation supports presence of licensed integrative practitioners in
the nation's workforce debate
-Anti-discrimination petition filed at
Change.org by expectant mother seeking a midwife; IHPC endorses, and KHN covers
Integrative Clinics
-An ND-LAc shares experience as a Medicaid-covered practitioner for Healthpoint
FQHC
-Academic integrative centers in Ohio open doors to TCM
-Boise's St. Alphonsus Medical Center
begins referral service for prenatal yoga therapy
-Manahan and Snider respond to article
on the Secret Sauce and Positive Side-Effects Via Whole Person Integrative
Medicine
Academic Integrative Medicine
-Bastyr teaching clinic ranks among the top among all Puget Sound primary care
clinics
-Consortium
publishes standards for competencies for integrative medicine fellowships
-Southwest College of Naturopathic
Medicine receives
award from Tempe Chamber of Commerce
Professions and Organizations
-National acupuncture association and president Michael Jabbour taken to task
in "AAAOM - Making Promises it Can't Keep"
-Holistic medical organizations AHMA and ABIHM link together in new Academy of Integrative
Health and Medicine
-ACAM
grants first physician membership and advisory position to chiropractor, CTCA's
James Rosenberg, DC
-International College of Integrative Medicine offers $20,000 planning grant
for a major chelation study
-Naturopathic profession's organ, Natural Medicine Journal, publishes
special oncology issue
-From "drugless" to "drug-free" - American Chiropractic
Association endorses position of Chiropractic Summit
-National, multidisciplinary certification
for health coaches advances
Books
-Holistic nurse Lucia Thornton, BC-HN publishes Whole Person Caring
-Norton publishes Scott Shannon, DO's Mental
Health for the Whole Child
People & Awards
-James Gordon, MD and Tieraona Lowdog, MD receive 2014 awards from the
Integrative Healthcare Symposium
-Jerrilyn Cambron, DC, PhD elected president of the Massage Therapy Foundation
-American Botanical Council and American Herbal Products Association announce
2014 awards
-Payment expert Anthony Hamm, DC elected president of the American Chiropractic
Association
March 2, 2014
[This column was first published here at the Huffington Post.)
The concept that the U.S. medical industry needs a radical shift away
from profiting off disease toward a system that focuses on health
creation is deeply imbedded in the movement for integrative health and
medicine. Now the policy leader who is perhaps
the most influential player in U.S. medicine over the last 20 years, Don
Berwick, MD, is urging all leaders of hospitals and health systems for
just such a "far more radical shift than we have imagine" toward a
system organized toward "creating health" in the individual and
communities served. More
February 15, 2014
Policy
-Shifting paradigms: Berwick urges "radical shift" in medical
industry toward "creating health"
-White House responds to petitions from the acupuncture and naturopathic
medicine communities
-Events to honor Senator Harkin: Samueli Institute and American Chiropractic
Association
-Mark Guimond offers new resource on acupuncture legislation via National
Policy Group
-Not yet "creating health" but "historic" Maryland plan
shifts perverse payment incentives in hospitals
Research
-Employer-focused Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine publishes
report showing cost savings from naturopathic care
-NCCAM's
Briggs speaks of her agency's involvement in the "paradigm shift"
toward pragmatic trials
Public Health
-Credit CVS Caremark: APHA calls on all drug stores to end cigarette sales
-Sommers reports on CAM/IM at the APHA meeting
-Massage groups publish group statement supporting the Entry-Level Analysis
Project (ELAP)
Academic
Medicine
-U Kansas and Cleveland Chiropractic College faculty meet in joint session on
pain
-Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM) receives
Building Bridges of Integration award
-
International group of medicinal plant researchers endorses ABC-AHP-NCNPR
Botanical Adulterants Program
Opportunities
-Aurora Health Care has job openings for acupuncturists, chiropractors, and
massage therapists
-Homeopathy accreditation group ACHENA call for commissioners
-U Kansas Medical Center opens applications to MD or DO for its eighth
integrative medicine fellowship
People
-Kasra Pournadeali, ND takes over as president of the American Association of
Naturopathic Physicians
-AHPA view - supplement critic Congressman Henry Waxman to not seek re-election
February 15, 2014
Those
who grow up experiencing medicine and medical treatment as pharmaceuticals, diagnostic
procedures, and surgery can have trouble with the idea of "positive side
effects." Hard
evidence is building to support these claims of "positive side effects." Group
Health Research Institute senior research scientist Dan Cherkin, PhD, is a
specialist in integrative health research. His team published their findings as: "Unanticipated
benefits of CAM therapies for back pain." (This article was first written as an as-yet-to-be published column in the consumer magazine, Alternative Medicine. It was first published on the internet here at the Huffington Post.
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