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)
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.
