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Issues #127-#130 Sept-Dec 2014 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #127-#130 Sept-Dec 2014
December 17, 2014
Policy
-Joint
Commission Elevates Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Massage and Relaxation in Pain
Care in Response to Integrative Team
-Herb
Industry Pleased with Pallone as New House Commerce Minority Leader
-Educating
Oregon's Medical Home Policy Leaders on Integrative Medicine and Health
-British
Agency Urges Homebirths for Uncomplicated Pregnancies
Costs
-Website on Cost Studies Offered via ACCAHC's Project for Integrative
Health and the Triple Aim (PIHTA)
Integrative Services
-Survey of AIHM Attendees Finds 67% of Integrative Practitioners Using or
Planning to Use Telemedicine
-Silver
Linings: Update on the Closure of Pathways to Wellness from Beth Sommers, LAc,
MPH, PhD
-Reiki Gets a Little Respect in U.S. News and World Reports
- From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in
Health Systems and Communities from November 2014
Academics
-Update: The IFM-Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program
-Maryland University of Integrative Health and National College of
Natural Medicine Announce Partnership
-Bastyr Initiates MPH and Two Additional Public Health Degrees
Research
-Not
Exactly What We Anticipated Department: NCCAM GMOs Yeast into
Opioids
Professions & Organizations
-Breakthrough Agreement between State Massage Therapy Boards and National
Certifying Group
-Professional Self-Care:
Chiropractors Promote Bill to Improve Chiropractic Medicare
Documentation
-From Holism to Love: Marking the Transition of the 36 Year-Old AHMA into
the Emerging AIHM
-Wikipedia and Homeopathy: Ullman Makes Case for that Prejudice in Its
Whole Form is Rampant
Miscellaneous
-Say What? Average Office
Visit Lengthens Over Past 20 Years
-Consumers-Practitioners
Together: Ann Fonfa's 9th Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Cancer
Therapies Conference
December 15, 2014
From Google
Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities from November 2014
This
typically monthly Integrator
feature
is a quick capture of highlights from the multitude of links that flow in daily
via Google Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine" and "alternative medicine." Recently the
field's cup seems to be running over. Tremendous level of news and developments.
This is in part due to my use of a broader inclusion net for what I am
selecting. At the same time, the activity level suggests that those who believe
the movement is headed toward a "tipping point" may have something.
Here are 15 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 10 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices and media, and 21 developments from around the world for November 2014.
Chronicles of Health Creation: Joint Commission Issues New Pain Standards in Response to Integrative Medicine Team[This article was first published here at the Huffington Post.] A Nov. 12, 2014 announcement from the principal accrediting agency for
health care organizations could significantly impact access to
integrative pain care throughout the United States. The agency is the Joint Commission. The revised accreditation standard
will apply to all the institutions under the agency's guidance and
review: hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, home health and senior
homes. The focus of the change is great news for integrative
health and medicine. The Joint Commission significantly elevated the
potential value of "non-pharmacologic" approaches. Among those options
directly called out are, in the terms used by the Joint Commission,
acupuncture therapy, massage therapy, chiropractic therapy, osteopathic
manipulative treatment, physical therapy, and relaxation therapy. The action was prompted by an
integrative team led by Arya Nielsen, PhD, Ac.
November 26, 2014
Policy
-Republican
Senate Win Sweeps Key Integrative Health Leaders from Powerful Roles
-IHPC
Opens Much Needed CoverMyCare Campaign for Consumers on Non-Discrimination in
Health Care
-IHPC
on HHS Missing Deadline for Response to US Senate Demand That It Follow
Congressional Intent on Non-Discrimination in Health Care
-Veteran's
Health Administration Initiates Integrative Health Coordinating Council to Set
System-wide Plan via Gaudet's Office
-Does
the Concept of the Commons Have a Role in the Future of Integrative Health and
Medicine?
-The
Bridge to Health Creation through "Community Development" Workers/Organizers
Integrative Centers
-Former
Scripps Integrative Leader Mimi Guarneri Opens Pacific Pearl in La Jolla,
Consults on Huge Atlantic Health
-From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and
Communities from October 2014
Academic Health
-Touchstone/Wilder:
Footholds for Integrative Health in the National Center for Interprofessional
Practice and Education
-Community
Clinical Training Programs at Southern California University and Canadian
College of Naturopathic Medicine Noted in IOM Report
Resources
-Society
for Integrative Oncology Publishes Practice Guidelines/Report Care for
Integrative Breast Cancer Therapies
-CAHCIM
and SIO Team Up to Publish Monograph on Integrative Cancer Care Via NCI's
Journal
-New
Text on Integrative Nurse Coaching by Dossey-Luck-Shaub Trio
-Integrator Editor John Weeks Posts
Regular News via Center for Optimal Integration: Creating Health and ACCAHC Facebook Pages
Organizations
-NCCAOM
Steps Up to Fill National Leadership Gap for the Acupuncture Profession
-Breakdown
on Turn-out for the First Conference of the Planned Multidisciplinary Academy
of Integrative Health and Medicine
-Bravewell-Funded
Duke Program in Leadership in Integrative Health Has Triple the Target
Applicants
-Veterans
Health Administration Joins Consortium of Academic Health Centers for
Integrative Medicine
-Campaign
Underway to Create ISHAR as Wikipedia-like Archive of Energy Medicine
Information and Research
Professions
-The White Folks Hate the Black Folks
Department: The AAFP's Formal Position against Naturopathic Physicians
-IAYT
Focuses on Clarifying the Distinction between a Yoga Teacher and a Yoga
Therapist
People
Leading
Whole Systems Researcher and Dr. Rogers' Prize Winner Marja Verhoef, PhD
Retires
November 25, 2014
[This article was first published here at the Huffington Post and has 103 likes and 41 FB shares as of November 25, 2014.] That
integrative health and medicine would lose its top champion in
the past 20 years, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), was one foregone
conclusion of the 2014 Congressional election. Harkin had announced
plans to retire. His contributions have been immeasurable. The
shock to national politics regarding complementary medicine and
integrative health is that the new Republican majority in the United
States Senate will remove from their power positions two additional U.S.
Senators: Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). These are
the two elected officials who, after Harkin, have been the movement's
most passionate and effective advocates. What for instance will happen
to funding for the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)?
November 25, 2014
[This article was written for the Huffington Post and is available here with 245 likes and 78 FB shares as of November 25, 2014.] Integrative medicine and complementary health practices and
professionals have been listed in some pain guidelines of the dominant
school of medicine since at least 1999. Usually they are buried, a last
resort. If all else fails, try acupuncture. If all else fails, see a chiropractor. A new 8-page, policy brief, Never
Only Opioids: The Imperative for Early Integration of
Non-Pharmacological Approaches and Practitioners in the Treatment of
Patients with Pain argues that it is long past time for the last to
be first - to reverse this order and always bring integrative care
options up front, as least as complements. A media release is here.st important for the transformation of pain care, the paper comes with a separate set of 13 Recommendations
to leverage change: for Educators (3), Federal Agencies (3), Delivery
Systems (4) and Research Funders (4)
The paper is the product of a major national coalition involving over 40 organizations, the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS). Included in this document are
aspects of the Affordable Care Act that promote and support such a
shift.
November 9, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." This month the field's cup ranneth over.
Tremendous level of news and developments. This is in part due to my
use of a broader inclusion net of what I am selecting. At the same time,
the activity level suggests that those who believe the movement is
headed toward a "tipping point" may have something. Here
are 25 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 10 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices and media, and 25 developments from around the world for September
2014.
October 12, 2014
Policy
-"Never
Only Opioids" Policy Brief: The Imperative for Early Use of
Non-Pharmacological, Approaches and Practitioners in Pain Care
-Former
Army Surgeon General Schoomaker: The Two Reasons There is an "Imperative" for
Integrative Health and Medicine in the Civilian Care in the U.S.
-Act
Now! IHPC Urges Member to Support HR 4887, Expanding Care to Veteran's Act
-Naturopathic
Doctors Score Additional US Senate Endorsement of Naturopathic Medicine Week
-Honoring
the Immeasurable Contributions of Retiring Integrative Medicine Champion U.S.
Senator Tom Harkin
Integrative
Practices
-Cleveland
Clinic Announces Partnership with the Institute for Functional Medicine
-Richard Sarnat and the AMI Group: Update on a Trailblazing Data Producer
for the Integrative Health and Medicine Field
-Cheng-Tsui
Integrated Care Center: "Imbedded" in ACO and Emergent PCMH at Harvard
Research
-NCCAM Announces
$21.7-million Project with the VA and Their Families
-Multidisciplinary
Group Co-led by Ben Kligler, MD Secures PCORI Grant to Look at Group
Acupuncture to Address Health Disparities
Publications
-Kreitzer-Saper
team to serve as co-editors for Global
Advances in Health and Medicine Journal
-Explore Commentary: Is
there a "Town and Gown" Split Related to Science and Evidence in Integrative
Medicine?
Academic Medicine
-Kreitzer's U Minnesota Center Brings in Bronfort, Evans
via $500,000 NCMIC Grant to Create Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research
Program
-Maryland University of Integrative Health Launches
First Doctorate Programs
-Snapshot: Phoenix's Southwest College Naturopathic
Medicine Boasts Record Enrollment
Professions
-Naturopathic
Doctors, Integrative Medicine Consortium and Alliance for Natural Health Weigh
in on Compounding Pharmacies
People
-Jan Schwartz, MA,
BCTMB, recognized as Educator of the Year by the Massage Therapy Foundation
-Integrative Health
Leader Mary Jo Kreitzer Honored among Minnesota's Most Influential Women
October 4, 2014
his typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." Here
are 13 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 12 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices and media, and 13 developments from around the world for September
2014.
September 27, 2014
The movement for complementary and alternative medicine is famous for its consumer base. In
the context of this grassroots uprising of interest, singling out the
historic contributions of one person seems inappropriate. Yet for
complementary and integrative health policy and inclusion, there is
such a giant. This person has flipped open so many switches to cast
light on new, health-focused methods and practices that mere human
decency suggests we take time to honor him in this, the year of his
retirement.
IThis person is integrative health and medicine champion Tom Harkin, the
senior U.S. Senator from Iowa. He promotes this movement as an
instrument of his larger vision to create a "wellness society" in lieu of what he calls our present "sick care system." (This article was first published on September 27 here in the Huffington Post.)
September 22, 2014
On September 15, 2014, an article in Crain's Cleveland Business
propelled news of this pioneering program nationally. The move by the
highly-regarded Cleveland Clinic is not merely a dabbling in functional
practices. Rather, it's a full partnership with IFM. According to the release from the Cleveland Clinic,
IFM's chief medical officer Patrick Hanaway, MD will be on the ground
in Cleveland with best-selling author Hyman also serving in leadership.
Integrative center consultant Glenn Sabin wonders whether this is a "tipping point" for the field. (Note: This article was first posted here on Seprtember 22, at the Huffington Post. That post includes a useful response from Institute for Functional Medicine.
September 14, 2014
Policy
-Is any other organization or group
also considering "a big honking lawsuit" on Section 2706?
-Applying
a Health Lens to Decision-Making in Non-Health Sectors: in-laying "health performance measures"
Research
-Samueli,
IONS, Chopra and MIRAGLO team to create collaborative think tank to forward
Biofield Science Research
Business News
-GreenSurace takes a strange membership
strategy to build health plan for "alternative medicine"
-Class
action lawsuit filed against Whole Foods to stop sale of homeopathic medicines
-Emerging
integrated practice department: CVS officially ends sales of cigarettes in all
of its stores
-American Botanical Council reports herbal sales up 7.9% in 2013
Academic Health
-Arizona Center awarded $1.7 million
HRSA grant to develop integrative medicine in primary care
-Massage educators and institutions
collaborate for major Educational Congress, July 2015, Minnneapolis
-Parker Serves: remarkable community program at a
chiropractic university
-NYCC,
SCUHS, and Logan recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as "Great
Places to Work For"
-Huntington
College of Health Sciences offers Doctor of Health Science in Integrative
Healthcare
Integrative
Practice
-Interprofessionalism:
teaching acupuncturists to work with doctors regarding brain chemistry
-What
Wayne Jonas shared with Grantmakers in Health in a March 2014 plenary address
on "Giving Healing a -Voice"
-From
Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems, Communities and
Internationally
Organizations
-Data on acupuncture profession from
the 2013 Job Task Analysis of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine
-AIHM
offers certification in integrative health for executives and administrators
-National Consortium gathering endorses
Job Task Analysis for health/wellness coaches
-IAYT
is taking steps to develop a certification program for yoga therapists
-Institute
of Integrative Health moves into health and wellness offerings for its Maryland
community
-American
Holistic Medical Association offers live streaming of historic (sold-out)
conference to students and practitioners of all types, September 18-21
Opportunity
-IFM
hiring a new director of medical education; Susan Samueli Center for
Integrative Medicine seeks director
People
-Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO selected as AANP Physician of the Year
-Early University of Washington integrative medicine leader Nassim Assefi, MD
curator of stage content at TEDMED
September 13, 2014
Integrator adviser and columnist Michael Levin read the brief in the August 2014 Integrator Round-up entitled "Hospital group begins
campaign promoting its role disease as an economic engine." The
subject is an organization of U.S. hospitals and academic health
centers, the Coalition to Protect America's Health Care (CPAH).
The organization was created to protect economic life as hospitals know
it. Their strategy leads with calling attention to the jobs they create
and their economic impact on communities. I questioned whether this
strategy is ethical of nominally "healthcare" organizations. Levin, the
founder of the Health Business Strategies consultancy,
dives into CPAH and share details: over $14-million of marketing and
lobbying revenues from 2011-2013. He particularly notes the role of
academic health centers in this self-protective work.
September 3, 2014
This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights
from
the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." Here
are 8 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and
integrative medicine, 3 from alternative and integrative medicine in community
non-system practices, and 7 developments from around the world for August
2014.
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