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Issues #113- #115 - July to Sept 2013 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #113- #115 - July to Sept 2013
September 10, 2013
-PARCA coalition sends letter to oppose
removal of "non-discrimination" clause from the Affordable Care Act
-Integrative MD leader Delia
Chiaramonte in key role in Maryland win for chiropractors on manipulating
children
-Getting into the Nation's team-care
movement: HRSA-funded Center
opens website and invites participation
Publications
-NCCAM's Briggs calls for "more
nuanced" conversation about complementary and integrative medicine in JAMA
editorial
-American Journal of Medicine features positive review of integrative
medicine from Sierpina and Dalen
Academic Health and Medicine
-Chiropractor Joe Brimhall, DC, elected to chair the Northwest Commission on
Colleges and Universities
-Incoming Parker University president
Brian McAulay, PhD turns the ritual of investiture into a dedication to
community service
Business and Economics
-American Specialty Health to move
corporate headquarters to Indiana
-Former Alliance for Natural Health
chair Sherri Tenpenny, DO in critical position at work with Fortune 250 firm
Parker-Hannifin
-Standard Process in new engagement
with the acupuncture and Oriental medicine community
-Sabin on Steps to Negotiating
Integrative Medicine in Institutional Settings
Organizations
-Bravewell Collaborative extends its
sun-setting to 2015, declares legacy projects
-Society for Integrative Oncology
publishes paper on integrating top10 supplements into cancer care
-Massage Therapy Foundation publishes
free e-book on pediatric massage
Professions
-American Massage Therapy Association
explains its watch-and-see role toward non-discrimination/Section 2706
-Naturopathic professional organization
sponsors "Naturopathic Medicine Week," October 7-13, 2013
-Cochrane review paper boosts care from
midwives: happier Moms, fewer adverse effects
Creating Health and Health Coaching
-Mayo Clinic innovation leader speak of
"creating health" as medicine's goal
-Health coaching the subject of
exceptional series in Global Advances in Health and Medicine
-Role of integrative nurses in health
coaching featured
People
-Jeffrey Feldman, PhD the new director
of the Wake Forest Baptist Health Center for Integrative Medicine
-Award-winning film producer Kevin
Miller seeking crowd sourcing to complete Letters from Generation RX
-Georgetown's Hakima Amri, Marc
Miccozi and Mones Abu-Asab team for translation of 1000 year-old Avicenna's
Medicine
-Integrator publisher-editor John Weeks' commencement
talk to integrative health and medicine graduates More
September 7, 2013
The World You Are Entering: John Weeks' 2013 NYCC
Commencement Address to Integrative Health and Medicine Graduates
[This talk was first published here at the Huffington Post.] The following is a commencement address I was honored to deliver on Aug.
3, 2013. My audience was the graduates of the programs of Doctor of Chiropractic,
Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and Master of Applied Clinical
Nutrition at New York Chiropractic College/Finger Lakes School of Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine. The NYCC press release on the ceremony stimulated some requests to
read the talk and in turn the suggestion that I make it more broadly available.
I hope you find it of interest. More
September 2, 2013
[This column was first published here at IntegrativePractitioner.com.] Chiropractic doctors have always been a limbo profession. They
have more recognition and inclusion in health policy and third-party
payment than any of the other so-called "complementary and alternative
medicine" professions with which they are sometimes lumped. Yet they
have struggled mightily, internally, for years, with self-esteem and
what they call "cultural authority." Evidence is afoot that a new era of recognition for doctors of chiropractic is dawning. In
July 2013, the chiropractic profession hit a trifecta. The American
Chiropractic Association, a persistent lobbying force in the nation's
Beltway, successfully inserted a plan
to expand their program with the Veterans Administration into an
omnibus bill. The strategy creates a good chance of the legislation's
passage. More
September 2, 2013
[This article was first published here in the Huffington Post.]
A battle inside Congress and the Executive branch over the right
of patients to choose care from the types of practitioners they prefer
is erupting inside the Beltway. At stake is the meaning and potential
revocation of "non-discrimination in health care," Section 2706 of the
Affordable Care Act. The requirement is due to become law in January
2014. Congress and the Executive, in the form of the US Health and Human
Services, are sparring over congressional intent. Now seven medical
specialties have backed H.R. 2817 to entirely gut the non-discrimination
section. A key dimension to Section 2706 is patient access to covered
services
from licensed doctors of chiropractic, practitioners of acupuncture and
Oriental medicine, naturopathic physicians, massage therapists, and to
home births via non-nurse, certified professional midwives. More
August 1, 2013
Integrative Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Health Round-up #70: August 2013
Policy
-Harkin pushes back on HHS for broader interpretation of "non-discrimination in healthcare" (Section 2706)
-IHPC posts briefing by former Washington insurance commissioner Deborah Senn on Section 2706 (non-discrimination in healthcare)
-Kaiser Health News feature on Obamacare and alternative medicine stirs significant media interest
-Chiropractors announce positive steps toward VA residency, expansion of VA services, and an opening with Medicare
Integrative Practice
-From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities from July 2013
Economics and Business
-Dean Ornish, MD links with Healthways to promote his pioneering integrative heart health program
-Health creation? Former CEO of Henry Ford Hospital takes over as CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America
-RAND group reports "considerations" from expert panel on economic
analysis of complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine
-Medical tourism in Portland, Oregon? Tribune says "Global patients, wellness tourists seek out city's naturopaths"
Academics
-Chiropractic accrediting agency calls for public comments on residency standards
-CAHCIM announces Patty Wilder as new executive director, replacing Janet Polli
Research
-Bravenet's outcomes on prospective study on integrative pain treatment
-NIH NCCAM announces David Shurtleff, PhD as new deputy director
Professions
-National association for AOM announces goals in $3-million drive to support 2013-2016 strategic plan
-Naturopathic physicians' association announced new PR message: Natural Medicine. Real Solutions
Natural Products
-United Natural Products Alliance reaches out to practitioner groups as partner organizations
-AHPA publishes second edition of Botanical Safety Handbook online
People
-Integrative doctor Melinda Ring, MD selected one of Chicago's 100 most influential women
-Health freedom warrior Clinton Miller dies at 91
-AANP announces 2013 awards: Clark, Gazella, Anderson, Brinkman, Marinelli, Ayush Herbs
-Ethnobotanist Rosita Arvigo, DN lectures for the American Holistic Medical Association
August 31, 2013
"Doctor, Is What You Are Doing Part of the 30% that is
Waste?"
I was recently part of a
discussion breakout at an Institute of Medicine (IOM) meeting in which we explored
the patient roles in transforming care. As talk turned to empowering patients, I shared something I have done three times in recent years when
consulting with specialists on an eye issue related to a basketball injury from
20 years ago. Treatment choices for my eye lie within a semi-elective grey-zone
relative to potential surgery. My professional
life had taught the horror of the IOM declaring that 30%-50% of what is
done in medicine is waste, and much of it harmful. How is one to reflect
that when faced with a practitioner who one may in fact like? [This column was originally published as a hard copy column in Alternative Medicine magazine. A web version on the magazine's site is here.
July 31, 2013
Tracy Gaudet, MD has spoken
of the critical role of MDs/DOs as integrative medicine leaders in
health system change. An international panel recently concluded that the
key focus of all health professions academics is to graduate
professionals via "transformative" education to create "leaders" who are
"change agents." A key transformation is from guild focus to team care,
from professionalism to inrerprofessionalism. Will the new Board
Certification in Integrative Medicine create via this new specialty of
MDs and DOs leaders for this new era urged by The Lancet? This column was first published here at IntegrativePractitioner.com. More
July 29, 2013
This
monthly report includes 17 segments from Google Alerts on integrative medicine
developments in health systems plus 12 from the community for July 6,
2013-July 28, 2013. These came via requests for "integrative
medicine," "integrative oncology," "alternative medicine" and "complementary and alternative
medicine." The most significant media pick-up during the month was the Kaiser Health News feature, although the focus was on the favorable "alternative medicine" rather than "integrative medicine." Here is the MedPage link, WebMD and here the Denver Post, for instance. The Bravenet publication based on a study of integrative pain was also widely picked-up (see here and here and here, for instance.) Meantime, Paul Offit, MD's anti-CAIM book continues to pick up significant media, including this in the Washington Post and this rejoinder in the LA Times from the Council for Responsible Nutrition. Highest
level of links yet from practitioners of integrative medicine in the
community. Notably the IM links include naturopathic doctors and
practitioners of acupuncture and Oriental medicine.
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July 23, 2013
Policy
-Advisory Group on Prevention urges Surgeon General to issue guidance to states on non-discrimination (2706)
-Georgetown University group's Affordable Care Act implementation check list notes 2706, non-discrimination
-Integrative health academic consortium injects health and well-being into Institute of Medicine workshop
-Senator Harkin as pitch man for the naturopathic medical profession
-Obama administration issues rules on employment-based wellness; are employers hand-cuffed?
Research & Publications
-Iris Bell, MD leads team in JAMA Internal Medicine publication on systems outcomes in integrative medicine
-NCI calls for submissions on the role of integrative medicine in cancer survivorship
Integrative Practice
-From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities for July 2013
-Second major pain group creates focus on integrative pain strategies
-Update: Role of Arya Nielsen, PhD, LAc in the Joint Commission's interest in non-pharmacological approaches
Academic Medicine
-UCLAArts and Healing to offer Social Emotional Arts Certificate Program
Professions
-Washington State massage team publishes paper on massage in Essential Health Benefits
-Hassles of midwifery customers in getting care covered featured in New York Times
-Naturopathic doctors move into key roles in medical homes in Oregon
-Foundation for Chiropractic Progress continues to gather strength as chiropractic visibility group
Natural Products
-Cancer Treatment Centers of America reports outcomes of quality examination of dietary supplement suppliers
Conferences
-Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine hosts National Student Conference in Integrative Medicine, October 26-27
-Integrative Medicine for the Underserved offers 3rd annual conference in Santa Clara
-International Research Congress for Integrative Medicine and Health now accepting session proposals
Dr. -Rogers' Prize names Irving Kirsch, MD as keynote speaker for September 26, 2013 Gala Award Dinner
People
-Michael Smith, PharmD, ND joins Samueli Institute team as Senior Fellow
-Integrative medicine researcher Heather Boon, PhD appointed interim dean in Toronto pharmacy department
-Joe Stiefel, MS, EdD, DC selected a 6th president of National University of Health Sciences
July 7, 2013
This column was first posted here at Integrative Practitioner Online.
The TEDMED franchise, owned by billionaire Priceline founder, Jay
Walker, favors the kind of high-tech solutions that have attracted
capital to medicine in such billions over the last 60 years. One such
presenter at the April 2013 TEDMED at the Lincoln Center was Jonathan Bush.
Bush, whose uncle is George W. Bush, is the founder and chair of
fast-growing electronic health records company athenahealth. Bush's talk
rhetorically asked: "Is it fair to profit from healthcare?" He
responded affirmatively. In a follow-up Q&A with Walker,
Bush chastised government for suppressing entrepreneurs. Walker: "Where
does the revolution comes from? It doesn't come from within the medical
community. It's got to come from the customers - call them patients."
Bush responded: "My sense is that all of this needs some exogenous
factor to get the ball rolling." Bush's comment brought to mind a recent example of such exogenous input making a
difference. This was, however, from an emerging part of the medical
community that sees itself as exponents of a patient-centered movement ...
July 7, 2013
This
monthly report includes 28 segments from Google Alerts on integrative medicine
developments in health systems plus 16 from the community for June 1,
2013-July 6, 2013. These came via requests for "integrative
medicine," "integrative oncology," "alternative medicine" and "complementary and alternative
medicine." A lot of negative media play this month from Paul Offit, MD's book Do You Believe in Magic? Highest
level of links yet from practitioners of integrative medicine in the
community. Notably the IM links include naturopathic doctors and
practitioners of acupuncture and Oriental medicine. More
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