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Issues #102-#104 - July-September 2012 - Integrative Medicine News Archive |
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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #102-#104 - July-September 2012
October 8, 2012
Policy
-American College for Preventive
Medicine wins $774,000 HRSA grant to create National Coordinating Center for
Integrative Medicine
-U Minnesota receives $4-million from
HRSA as the first National Coordinating Center for Interprofessional Education
and Collaboration
Costs,
Coverage and Employers
-Key data for policy leaders published
in Herman-Eisenberg systematic review of cost-effectiveness in CIM
-Washington Post
touches on state decisions relative to chiropractic
and acupuncture in essential benefits
-IHPC's Wisneski speaks on integrative medicine to over 400 employers on CFO
Magazine webinar
-Employer group IHPM takes over global wellness initiative from World Economic
Forum
Integrative Centers
-October 2012 Integrator Google
Alerts extracts from academic and health system action in integrative medicine
-Chiropractic
House of Delegates passes resolutions on a chiropractor's role in integrative
centers
Businesses
-Data collected by Jill's List
available free for academic research; firm moves into employer market
-Canadian business launches national
directory of integrative health clinics
-Massage
Envy, with now 800 locations, (re)sold to Roark Capital Partners
Organizations
-Samueli Institute's "Patients at
the Crossroads" to explore intersection of integrative, evidence-based and
patient--centered health
-Pathways to Wellness begins drive to
support move to new location for serving the under-served in Boston
-Detailed plans for November 2-4 IN-CAM
Symposium in Toronto include massage summit, exploration of optimal benefits
-Consortium of Academic Health Centers
for Integrative Medicine begins forum for residents interested in -integrative
medicine
-Portrait of growth in an AOM school:
Five Branches University
-Historic International Congress for Educators in Complementary and Integrative
Medicine close to selling out
Professions
-Battle in New Mexico over advanced
practice certification program for chiropractors deepens division between two
forces in chiropractic
-Washington state massage organization
pushes inclusion in essential benefits package
Media
-Meta-analysis of individual patient
data on acupuncture for chronic pain drives significant positive media
-Escape
Fire
opens
across country, highlights Weil, Berwick, integrative medicine
-Taylor Walsh seminars for Integrative
Practitioner on social media in integrative practice
-Report says NFL great Larry Fitzgerald uses Peter D'Adamo, ND's genotype diet
to extend career
-Research
on naturopathic approach to diabetes gives that field significant positive
attention in key diabetes publication
People
-Esther Sternberg, PhD to lead research at University of Arizona Center for
Integrative Medicine
-Acupuncture and ACCAHC leader Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD featured in Institute
of Medicine Spotlight
October 7, 2012
The following 36 short segments, with links, are briefly noted
developments focusing on health system-based integrative medicine
programs from mid-September through October 6, 2012. These were selected
from scores of Google Alerts postings during that time period. They are
meant to serve as a quick scan of developments in the rapidly evolving
medical doctor-focused areas of integrative medicine in hospitals,
health systems and academic health centers. More
September 28, 2012
Even when research finds that complementary and integrative medicine
(CIM) or approaches are effective, these still may be shunned by health
care's major stakeholders. Employers, private insurers and government
agencies like Medicare that pay for services often block inclusion due
to concerns about costs. The findings of an exhaustive, systematic review of cost studies on
complementary and integrative medicine from 2001-2010, published in the British Medical Journal Open, begins to provide definitive guidance. The report, led by Patricia Herman, M.S., N.D., Ph.D.,
will not immediately please every integrative health advocate. Nor will
it serve as marching orders for every health care benefits decision
maker. Yet according to Herman, this study sets a new baseline ... More
September 20, 2012
Chiropractic
bounces around in an odd, in-between niche in US healthcare. Some 7-10%
of the public regularly use chiropractors, yet the "integrative
medicine" dialogue often likes to exclude them. A part of the reason may
be the field's extremely challenging identity issues. A recent battles
in New Mexico over a move to add prescription authority has erupted the
field's simmering tension between its dual personalities, often
described as "broad scope" or "straight." In this column, the always
thoughtful Integrator contributor Stephen Bolles, DC, looks at the
issue, and questions whether "broad scope" is a Trojan Horse that may be
the field's undoing. He is an unusual commentator on the subject with
many years associated with one part of the field, and more recently
working closely with the other. More
September 20, 2012
Satkarin Khalsa, MD, has delivered yoga programs for medical doctors for years. This year the director of Alberquerque Integrated HealthMedicine
scored a breakthrough. Her doctor students were able to earn continuing
medical education credit (CME) for learning how to practice yoga. For
patients of integrative medical doctors as well as their more
conventionally-minded colleagues, the affirmation of Khalsa's
educational program by the American Academic of Family Physicians (AAFP)
decision was a breakthrough. Yet the more important impact may be on
health care reform measures: the health of physicians themselves, and
the ways that mindfulness can shift empathy, teamwork and practice. More
September 12, 2012
The Gonzalez cancer treatment
was well known in the alternative medicine community long before the NIH
NCCAM and the National Cancer Institute decided to fund a trial on his
treatment of pancreatic cancer. The news of the trail was huge: a giant
from outside the system was to be explored in a major trail by
researchers deep inside the system in a moment when trust between the
two communities was about as palpable as that between the US and the
USSR in the middle Reagan years. Not surprisingly, the trial proved
controversial. Here a Gonzalez associate, former NIH and US Congress
staffer Beth Clay on Gonzalez book What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme
Treatment of Cancer. More
September 10, 2012
Policy
- IOM "horizontal" workshop on interprofessional education and care (IPE/C) urges "holistic perspective" and "widening the circle"
- Functional medicine physician and author Mark Hyman, MD offers exceptional holistic prescription for health creation
- Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC) posts 2012 Report and future plans
- Data points in the A.C.A. on the uses of key terms
Business
- ASH, dominant provider of licensed CAM benefits, opens South Carolina Technology Center
- Cheesecake Factory Medicine: Atul Gawande's New Yorker piece goes
inside corporatized, Big Brother medicine
- American Botanical Council reports that herbal dietary supplement retail sales jumped 4.5% in 2011
Integrative Centers
- Briefly noted developments on health system integrative medicine programs
Education
- Milestone: Ornish program credited for allowing first CME-approved conference to teach MDs to do yoga
Research
- NCCAM's Briggs
wonders about surprising practices that enter the mainstream
- Canadian research organization adds new measures to Outcomes Database
- Peering in on "CAM" in pediatrics in Germany
- Integrator
"did
not get it right" about new NCCAM pain leader Catherine Bushnell
Professions
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Organizations at DNC's Presidential Experience Marketplace support acupuncture access
Media
-
Alschuler-Gazella team link for Five to Thrive, daily internet radio show on integrative cancer care
- Doctored (formerly Medical, Inc.) to premier in New York City, features Wilk case, integration
- Medical Coding & Billing site publishes perspective on top 10 cities for "alternative medicine"
- Modern Heathcare Professional stakes out new business model in integrative publishing arena
- Joseph Pizzorno, ND's publications update: new editions of influential texts, plus Clinical Pathophysiology
People
-
Integrative health philanthropist Ruth Westreich joins Bastyr University and Samueli Institute boards
- AANP 2012 Awards Announced: Rodriguez Malave, Stargrove, Breed, Morstein, Pure Encapsulations and Weeks
September 9, 2010
Note: The report is
based on a similar report from the Academic Consortium for Complementary
and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) to its members and participants
following a two-day workshop on August 28-29, 2012 that was called the
most inclusive and diverse dialogue in Institute of Medicine (IOM)
history. It is the first of six such workshops which will be convened as
part of the IOM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional
Education. ACCAHC is one of over 30 academic and professional
organizations sponsoring the forum. I produced this report as one of
ACCAHC's "ambassadors" to the Global Forum and the workshop.
Contents
-First an Outcome: IPE Leader Calls for a
Need to "Rethink Who is in Our Circle"
-Context: The Most Inclusive "Horizontal"
Dialogue in IOM History
-ACCAHC is One of 30 Forum Sponsors,
Goldblatt a Member, Weeks an Alternate
-To "Fundamentally Change" - Objectives of
the Two 2012 IOM Forum Workshops
#1: Employer to Academics - "What Happened
to You Guys?"
#2: Strategy, Culture, Economics,
Accountability: What Trumps What in Making Change?
#3: Aetna Leader Urges Academics to Link
IPE/C with Care Coordination Movement
#4: Whose Team is This? Kaiser Leader
References ACCAHC's Goldblatt in Comment about the Patient's Role
#5: Perfect Teamwork, but for What Purpose:
Co-Chair Meleis Asks Who Decides the Focus of the Team?
#6: Goldblatt Suggests Teams Should (also)
Focus on Health and Healing
#7:
Money Trumps: Canadian System Leads via $20-Million Government Investment
#8:
A $200-Million Coordinated Campaign to Get the U.S. to Invest in IPE/C?
#9: Widening the Circle and Focusing on
Health Outcomes: A Public Health View
#10: Vermont Blueprint for Health Leader in
Revelation about Role of Naturopathic Doctors
#11: Concluding Remarks from Schmitt,
Others: Importance of Holism, Political-Economics, Culture
-Postlude
:
ACCAHC's 3-Level Mission as "Ambassador" in the Global Forum
August 1, 2012
Policy
- Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine declares support for Affordable Care Act's non-discrimination section urged by licensed CAM professionals
- American Herbal Products Association and Senator Durbin engage dialogue on good manufacturing practices (cGMPs)
- Certified professional midwives celebrate three new sponsors in Medicaid inclusion bill
Corporate Health
and Integrative Health
- Integration from the demand side: U Maryland Integrative Center moves into corporate wellness
- Book from Tai-Sophia co-founder Robert Duggan focuses on "Reducing Health-Care Costs in Corporate America"
Academic Medicine
- Translating research: Haramati/Harazduk mindbody train-the-trainer program influences health professional education on both sides of the Atlantic
- UCLA Center for East-West Medicine (CEWM) offers new
fellowship in East-West Primary Care
Integrative Centers
-
Integrative medicine team at Columbia publishes Integrative Cancer Strategies for Cancer Patients
- Briefly noted developments on health system integrative medicine programs
Research
- Neuroscientist Bushnell appointed scientific director for NCCAM's Division of Intramural Research
- Group Health researcher Dan Cherkin, PhD in joint appointment as Bastyr research director
- Naturopathic and chiropractic researchers top 2012 awards from Canadian CAM Research Fund (CCRF)
Professions and Organizations
- Over 50 chiropractors working as clinicians in London's Olympic village
- Discussion items for AANP House of Delegates Stakeholder and State Leadership Summit August 14, 2012
- 9th International Conference for the Society for Integrative
Oncology: October 8 -10,
2012, in Albuquerque
- 2nd Annual Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, September 6-8, Santa Clara
Practice Building
- Comment on Clements/Gignac
The Practitioner's Journey: The Path to Success for Holistic, Alternative and Integrative Health Professionals
Media
- Brief review of various media from Google Alerts
People
- Helen Erickson selected as AHNA Holistic Nurse of the Year for 2012
-
NUHS student Dana Madigan the first chiropractic student to win the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
-
Robert Bonakdar, MD elected to presidency of the American Academy of Pain Management
July 24, 2012
In 2002, the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Policy included
a primary recommendation. A CAM office should be created inside the
U.S. government. Its role: "to coordinate Federal CAM activities and to
facilitate the integration of safe and effective practices and products
into the nation's health care system." A decade-plus later the U.S. is about to have a center that partially
fulfills on that core recommendation. It won't be inside the federal
government. Nor will it focus on "CAM." It will also be more limited, in
its initial scope at least. But some of the language in a new Health
Resource Services Administration (HRSA) grant program suggests that this
new National Coordinating Center for Integrative Medicine (NccIM as
HRSA calls it) may eventually have broad coordinating value for this
emerging field ... Full column here at the Huffington Post.
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