John WeeksOn March 5, 2009, Barack Obama convened a White House Forum on Health Reform in which the administration underscored its commitment to take on the nation's crisis in its medical processes. A month later, on April 8, 2009, Obama acted again by...
In this response to the Bravewell Collaboration's listing of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and reimbursement reform as key factors in any healthcare transformation, David Cundiff, MD points out that "randomized controlled clinical trials and other...
Did you know that Pepsico is threatening to move all its operations out of New York if the state passes a "sin-tax" on soda pop? Integrator columnist Michael Levin recognized in this story that the giant firm has a rather strong perspective on...
The alpha and the omega of the IOM Summit is the Bravewell Collaborative. The organization of philanthropists laid down $445,000 to sponsor the gathering. Bravewell now plans significant additional investment to ensure that the outcomes have legs in...
When the Integrator's Daphne White, CHTP observed the February 26, 2009 US Senate hearing on integrative healthcare chaired by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), she chose to focus on Harkin's introductory comments in which he calls for an "end to...
Here is a treat. Beltway resident, reporter and Healing Touch practitioner Daphne White, CHTP reports for us on the historic February 23, 2009 U.S. Senate hearing on the "principles of integrative health care" chaired by Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)...
For many of us, this weeks' "integrative health policy week" in Washington, DC actually began with the robust Integrative Healthcare Symposium (IHS) in New York City last week where a multidisciplinary gathering of 1300 met to explore policy...
James Gordon, MD, past chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, held a Healthcare Community Discussion on December 30th. But anyone who knows Gordon's interests will guess that he assembled a wide-ranging...
Here is a great opportunity to participate in a tremendously important initiative. On December 29, 2008, Wayne Jonas, MD will host a Health Care Community Discussion as urged by HHS Secretary-designee Tom Daschle. The subject is a draft program for...
For the last decade the American Hospital Association has published outcomes of a series of surveys that have indicated that the percent of hospitals with some complementary and alternative medicine has quintupled to 37%. But a closer look at the...
