John WeeksReporting on the latest in the world of Integrative Medicine around Policy, Insurance, Academics, Natural Products, Integrative Care and the Media.
No one doubts whether the Bravewell Collaborative's new mapping study added useful understanding of the nation's health system-sponsored and academiac health center-sponsored integrative clinics. But do these thumbnails, reports and tables on these...
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute draft plan comment period ends March 15: No CAM-IM presently included Dana Ullman, MPH: Swiss government finds homeopathy cost-effective, covers in national health plan; Update: Marilyn Allen and the...
The publication by the Bravewell Collaborative of Integrative Medicine in America: How Integrative Medicine Is Being Practiced in Clinical Centers Across the United States proved successful in generating substantial media attention for the emerging...
A remarkable, integrated set of 60 leaders converged in late 2010 as the Stakeholder Conference on Integrated Healthcare Reform. The group, organized by the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC), explored the opportunities for integrated...
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...
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)...
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...
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. It wasn't until I...
Rick Kirschner, Author of Click! on the Debate over ABIM and the MD’s Integrative Medicine Specialty
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...
