John WeeksObama appoints U Arizona IM fellow Sharon Van Horn to key prevention panel ... Brian Berman, MD and Jane Guiltinan, ND to join NCCAM Advisory Council ... Weeks' powerpoint on 2010 policy and cost developments available via Integrative Healthcare...
Beltway-based Integrator columnist Taylor Walsh specializes in examining policy changes with an eye on their potential meaning to integrative medicine and health care. In this column, Walsh offers a useful summary of a rash of developments as the...
I was a role-player in a recent workshop on practical integrative healthcare models. My job was to kick off small group work by presenting "major trends that are influencing integration." The focus was on chiropractic medicine. The venue was the...
Nutrition Business Journal estimates size of integrative practitioner market by discipline ... Patients of general practitioners who use CAM cost less and live longer than those of conventional doctors in Netherlands study ... Clinicians note:...
Integrator columnist Michael Levin recently had occasion to read a series of reports, prepared by the internationally-known health care consulting firm, The Lewin Group. The subject: possible cost impact of pro-actively using a few dietary...
Change in CPT codes relative to payment for time could be major opening for integrative, life-changing practices ... Acupuncturists credentialed for embryo transfer unit at Colorado hospital ... 25 news items on cost, cost-savings, and economics of...
While reviewing recent issues of the Integrator to draft the Top 10 actions and events from 2010, I created a second list of individuals who had been, or were about to, be significant contributors to the integrative practice field. Of course there...
On or about the winter solstice, the Integrator publishes a Top 10 of actions, events and trends from the previous year which will support the coming of the light for integrative practice in the New Year. This column is paired with a separate Top 10...
IOM Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care and Education includes Rick Marinelli, ND, LAc and integrative MD Lonnie Zeltzer ... Did integrative practice organizations step up to participate in federal policy comment periods on prevention...
The Integrator has closely followed the work to set standards and national certification in health coaching led by professionals from Harvard and U Minnesota. The coverage stimulated Chris Johnson, ND to write a column in which be noted that he was...
