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Issues #94-#95 Integrative Medicine and Integrative Health News - Nov-Dec 2011 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Integrative Medicine and Integrative Health News -- Issues #94-#95, November, December 2011
January 6, 2012
IHPC
publishes integrative care stakeholder report on Affordable Care Act
... Center for Practical Bioethics forms national group to promote
Institute of Medicine pain blueprint ... Huffington Post publishes
Top 10 lists for 2011 ... Grassroots efforts help protect National
Prevention Fund ... Certified Professional Midwives get backing from
Barney Frank ... Harkin and Hatch ask FDA to redraft guidance on New
Dietary Ingredients ... Lori Knutson steps down from Allina/Penny George
Institute position to lead The Marsh ... U Wisconsin free clinical
module for hypothyroidism ... Huge drop off in number of CAM educational
programs in Britain ... Chiropractors take battle over accreditation to
the Department of Education ... Article examines standards debate in
massage therapy ... University of Western States begins MS program in
functional medicine ... Ted Kaptchuk featured in New Yorker article on
placebo ... Chicago Tribune reporter goers after NCCAM ... Military
turns to integrative medicine ... Dieticians in Functional Medicine
established, sets standards ... After 8 years, IN-CAM begins charging
dues ... Australian CAM-public health research organization reports
exceptional year of growth ... Chiropractors call for presentations for
public health conferences ... Carla Wilson, LAc, DAOM honored by SF
Mayor Edwin Lee ... Joseph Pizzorno honored by Natural Products
Association More
December 26, 2011
2011 was a good year for integrative medicine. Many of the developments reported here grew out of the
mandated inclusion
of integrative and complementary and alternative medicine practices in
the Obama-Pelosi Affordable Care Act. Here is the Top 10 for Integrative
Medicine Policy and Action for 2011. (Those interested in highlights
for the years since 2006 will find links here.) This article is posted here at the Huffington Post. Join the dialogue!
December 16, 2011
[First posted here in the Huffington Post. Be part of the larger dialogue. Click here to read, comment, tweet, or FB from that site. Thanks.] The
forced exit
of Don Berwick, MD as administrator of the Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Services was a double whammy for the emerging field of
integrative medicine. Berwick's participation in a 2009 Institute of
Medicine Summit on Integrative Medicine gave him a depth connection with
the community. This deepened a philosophical alignment that he shared
in his Basic Principles for Integrative Medicine. Berwick's more
important contribution to the field may be his leadership in shifting
the incentive structures in the payment system toward one that will
support health. More
Issue
#94 - December 8, 2011
December 8, 2011
AMA's influence on payment
attacked in court and by McDermott in Congress ... Allina's accountable
care organization (ACO) CEO calls integrative medicine financial asset
... Trompeter and Zunin: new
economics of patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) favors integrative
teams ... Integrative medicine loses brother in the trenches as Berwick
steps down ... New York-based insurance program for unions offers integrative therapies in
patient-centered medical home ... Grand Rapids ER pilot for high-utilizers
projects $300-million in savings from "integrative medicine center" ...
Coors Foundation backs integrative medicine clinical pilot partnering
Maricopa County and Weil's Arizona Center ... Donna Karan's Urban Zen
integrative therapies goes bi-coastal to UCLA medical center ... Update
on consultant-author Roger Jahnke, OMD's work in integration ... Design Principles for Healthcare Renewal
given a 2nd look 10 years after submission to White House Commission on
CAM Policy ... Why integrative disciplines should get on the
interprofessional education/care (IPE/C) bandwagon ... Pacific College
of Oriental Medicine initiates holistic nursing bachelors program with
Carla Mariano, EdD, BC-HN ... First naturopathic medical student
accepted to Weil's Arizona Center month-long integrative medicine
elective ... Grandfathering
expectations of integrative MDs for the planned board certification in
integrative medicine ... Battle over "dry needling" sees key Medicare
and court decision in Vermont and Oregon ... Gaudet's CAM booklet
re-published by OBGyns ... Army job posting for licensed acupuncturists
at Madigan sets salary at $73,000-$95,000 ... Model naturopathic ethics
and standards of practice to be in Hawai'i law ... Industry groups ask FDA to withdraw new dietary ingredient standards; chiropractic organization weighs in ... Marc Micozzi, PhD, MD co-authors Your Emotional Type, a guide to personalizing appropriate integrative therapies ... In Memoriam: Roger Hayward Rogers, MD, of the Dr. Rogers' Prize and InspireHealth More
December 6, 2011
Recently long-time
integrative health author, system-consultant and pioneer Roger Jahnke,
OMD urged me to "resurrect" a document from the early years of
integrative health called the Design Principles for Healthcare Renewal. This
is almost exactly a decade since these were well-received in October
2001 as a clarifying document by the members of the White House
Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Jahnke's
request also resonated with a presentation at Bravewell Integrative Medicine in Action event November 10, 2011 in which it was suggested that we might yet see an economic
incentive structure to support a "thriving industry of health creation"
(Principle #9). Here are those 10
principles, borne out of a Task Force on Principles from the 2000
Integrative Medicine Industry Leadership Summit. Do they have useful
resonance for you? More
November 29, 2011
Best-selling
author and speaker Rick Kirschner did not know, until I told him, about
the debate over the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine's decision
to create a formal MD specialty in integrative medicine. For 25 years
Kirschner has made his living through teaching communication and
relationship strategies. He's written such books as How to Deal with Difficult People and, most recently, How to Click with People: The Secret to Better Relationships in Business and Life.
Kirschner has skin in this game. A 1981 graduate of then National
College of Naturopathic Medicine, Kirschner is a licensed but
non-practicing doctor of naturopathic medicine. He'd heard from others
about efforts of family practice docs, in a coincident irony, to keep
naturopathic doctors from practicing at full scope. I asked Kirschner
for his perspective on "clicking" in a context like this. Here is his
column. More
November 17, 2011
When it comes to motivation, money may be the queen among
carrots and pain the king among sticks. Both financial gain and human pain may soon be promoting more rapid uptake of integrative medicine by mainstream organizations according to representatives from a major health system and the US military.
The perspectives were shared during a forum entitled Integrative
Medicine in Action sponsored by the Bravewell Collaborative of
philanthropists in integrative medicine. If true, the long-standing
struggle over misalignment of incentives between the health-oriented
approach of integrative medicine and the disease-focus that spawned the
$2.6 trillion medical industry may be finding a positive resolution. Obama's health reform and prescription pain-killers may be integrative medicine's best friends. More
November 9, 2011
Many in integrative
medicine view the payment and delivery structure of the patient-centered
medical home (PCMH) as exceptional for realizing an integrative
medicine model. A leader, if not the leader, in implementing an
integrative PCMH model is the Oahu-based Manakai O Malama Integrative
Group and Rehabilitation Center led by Ira Zunin, MD, MPH, MBA. In this Integrator
interview, Zunin describes the challenges and benefits of the new
payment and electronic medical records initiatives. His center is
engaged as PCMH with HMSA, Hawai'i's dominant insurer, and on "the same electronic footprint" with
the state's leading hospitals. Zunin, a sometimes consultant, also offers
his perspective on whether the 5-practitioner integrative clinic model
proposed by Integrator adviser Bill Manahan, MD can work in the emerging PCMH environment. More
November 8, 2011
Some integrative medicine leaders view the patient centered medical home (PCMH) as an optimal environment for expressing an integrative practice. Obama's Affordable Care Act included specific language that invited operators of PCMHs
to include chiropractors, and licensed complementary, alternative and
integrative practitioners. An exceptional resource in this area is Tom Trompeter, MHA, the CEO of Healthpoint. The 12 center network, formerly the Community Health Centers of King County, is
not only quite advanced in its development of what Trompeter prefers to
call a "patient-centered healthcare home." For 15 years, Healthpoint
has included diverse natural medicine offerings such as acupuncture,
naturopathic medicine, massage therapy and behavioral health care.
Trompeter offers his reflections on the nature of the PCMH paradigm and
what it asks of both practitioners, and those who would educate them for
participation in this emerging model. More
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