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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #131-#133 Jan-March 2015March 14, 2015
Policy
-Going, Going, Nearly Gone: Licensed
"CAM" Practitioners Disappearing from NCCIH Advisory Council
-NCQA
Plan Will Accredit the Healthcare Neighborhood Including Chiropractors, Others
-Chiropractic
Section Leads Effort to Promote APHA Position Statement on Non-Pharmacological
Approaches for Pain
-Taylor
Walsh: CoverMyCare Report on State Legislative Action for Non-Discrimination in
Healthcare (Section 2706)
-Supplement
Industry Battle with NY Attorney General over DNA Testing Issue Expands
Integrative Care
-Opportunity
for Additional Health Systems to Join Samueli Institute/IHI Chronic Pain
Breakthrough Collaborative
-Through the Looking Glass: Perspective of an Integrative Medicine
Newbie, Medical Student Pooja Shankar, MS
-Quick Links to
Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: February 2015
Professions
-Physiological Birth: HRSA Grants
$100,000 for Data Project of the Midwives Alliance of North America
-HMS' Harvard Health Respects Whole Practice
of Chiropractors
Organizations
-American
Board of Integrative Medicine Announces First 121 Fellows
-Yale
IM Leader Katz and American College of Lifestyle Medicine Working on "True
Health Coalition"
-Critical Mass: Samueli Institute to Join
Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium
Anthropologist
Nurse Leader at CIIS Meg Jordan Attempts a Definition of Integrative Health
Integrative
Academics
-New
MS Integrative Mental Health Marks Further Evolution of the ND "Mothership"
-University
of Western States Program Brings Chiropractors into Legacy Health Emergency
Rooms
International
-Integrator's John Weeks Joins with GAHMJ to Produce The Global Integrator Blog
-Quick
Links to Global News in Traditional, Alternative, and Integrative Health and
Medicine for January 2015
Miscellaneous
-TEDMED
Has IHPC's Wostrel Speak on Non-Discrimination in Patient-Centered Care Webinar
-Default Mode Uptake Inhibitors: Michael
Pollan's Essay on Psilocybin and LSD for Health and Medicine
-Responses
to a Blog on Connecting Integrative Health and Medicine with the Environment
People
-Wayne
Jonas, MD Honored at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium
-Davis
Lamson, MS, ND Given Lifetime Achievement Award by Oncology Association of
Naturopathic physicians
-Maiers
and Lisi among Chiropractors Receiving 2015 Awards for Contributions
-American
Botanical Council Announces 2105 Awardees
-Update
on a Leader: Marc Micozzi, PhD, MD
March 7, 2015
Longtime Integrator columnist Taylor Walsh conceived and led development of the Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium's consumer-focused CoverMyCare campaign.
Walsh is a writer and consultant working out of the Beltway. The goal
is to help consumers partner with practitioners to drive efforts to get
payers to meet the intent of the Non-Discrimination in Healthcare provision (Section 2706)
of the Affordable Care Act. While many people are throwing their hands
up in frustration, it is clear from this report that real work is under
way in multiple states to shift access as Section 2706 mandates. Walsh
shares legislative activity in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Rhode
Island and Minnesota.
March 7, 2015
This
typically monthly Integrator feature is, for February 2015, a
quick capture of highlights
from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to
"integrative medicine." A remarkable trend is the number of stories
about new medical hires who advertise their completion of the U Arizona
Fellowship in Integrative Medicine. Here are 24 selections
related to hospitals and medical organizations and integrative medicine,
plus just 2 from
alternative and integrative medicine in community non-system practices
for February 2015. For you paying attention: January got by me without
competing this practice. Apologies. When time allows, this practice
continues to astound. Critical mass! (Note that Global News Links are
now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine - see related notice here. Exciting development.)
March 5, 2015
I
first encountered medical student Pooja Shankar, MS, when I was a guest
lecturer at the Masters in Physiology-Complementary and Alternative
Medicine program at Georgetown University. The program, co-founded by
Hakima Amri, PhD and Adi Haramati, PhD,
is a rare feeder program to health professional education. Students are
opened up to engaging a broad array of potential tracks. I had a
secondary reason for liking the ongoing relationship. All of
these students must complete an two-month capstone project. ACCAHC had
scored great work from one such intern and we were interested in more
free labor ...
March 4, 2015
Three long-time colleagues recently made me a
wonderful offer that met with a rising personal area of interest: the
global
movement for integrative health and medicine. This has been gestating in
me particularly
since 2012 when I was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to
Hong
Kong to serve on a working group for the now published WHO
traditional medicine strategy: 2014-2023. Michele Mittelman,
RN, MPH, the co-founder and CEO of the peer-reviewed and indexed
Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHMJ), together with GAHMJ's
co-editors Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD, FAAN and Robert Saper, MD, MPH,
invited me to write an 8-10 time monthly Global Integrator Blog ...
February 15, 2015
Policy
-Toward
Patient-Centered Federal Funding: Chiropractors Going After Participation
in Federal Student Loan Repayment Program
-Michael Levin: "NY Attorney General Issues Cease and Desist
Order Against Retailers and Supplement Companies - Using a Screwdriver to Hammer a Nail?"
Organizations
-The Gift That
Keeps on Giving:
New Publication on Care Outcomes from the Penny George Institute
-Another
Perspective on SIO Founder Cassileth's View of the Maturation of Integrative
Oncology
Academics
-Albert Einstein
College is the New Coordinating Center for the BraveNet Research Network
-Report
Puts Economic Impact of New York Chiropractic College at $67-Million
Integrative Care Industry
-Consumer
Use of Complementary Health Approaches Drops in Recent NCCIH Data; Increases
for Yoga, Melatonin, Probiotics, Fish-oil
-Experience-Based
Medicine:
Share Practice App Continues to Pick-up Steam as Integrative Care Communicator
for Clinicians
-The
Most Visible PR for Integrative Medicine: Advertisements from Cancer Treatment
Centers of America
-Home
Depot Founder Gives $14-Million Gift to Jefferson's Myra Brind Center for
Integrative Medicine
-Two
More Children's Hospitals Announce Integrative Programs: Cleveland Clinic and U
Minnesota
-City
of Asheville Continues to Promote Itself as Destination for Integrative Care
-FON
Consulting Publishes Updated Lists of 2015 Integrative Conferences
Identity
-Analysis
of Multiple Definitions of Integrative Medicine and Health Finds Significant -Differences
-While We Are at
It (The M-Word):
The Distinction Between "Modalities," "Therapeutic Procedures," and Human
Beings
-Consortium
of Integrative Medicine Academics Changes Name from CAHCIM to ACIMH and Takes
on New Partners for 2016 Congress
-Don't Want to Be
Part of Any Club That Would Have Me Department: Chiropractic
Students See Themselves as Mainstream not CAM
People
-Tom
Newmark Elected Board Chair at the American Botanical Council
-Richard
Miller Named Acting Executive VP of American Chiropractic Association
-Standard
Process Selects Ibrahim Abou-Nemeh, PhD as New Director of Research and
Development
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
Exhibit
A on Why We Need "Alternatives" - Errors Linked to 440,000 Hospital Deaths
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
International
--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
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.)
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