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.
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
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
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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
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.
