Integrator Blog News & Reports

Integration, by nature, asks us to open our peripheral visions. We are served to look at the whole of the field. We need to develop new fascia, new connectivity. Opportunities crop up in new places. The Integrator Blog News and Reports is meant to provide you with information, insights and tools to enhance integrated care in the environment you serve.

- John Weeks, publisher-editor

Organizational Action at a Glance: AAOM, Bravewell, CAHCIM, ACCAHC, ACA, AANP, AMTA, plus...

"Integration" is enhanced by awareness of the priorities of the "other" with which one is, or may be, involved. This irregular Integrator feature is a look at strategic actions of some leading organizations with a stake in creating a better integrated healthcare system. Issue #2 of the Integrator included an article on the Defacto CAM-IM Federal Agenda. The article explored the federal initiatives of diverse groups involved in advancing integrated care. This article looks more broadly at current priorities of organizations which represent significant stakeholders in the healthcare integration effort.
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Winterstein/NUHS Explore New Ground for Multi-Disciplinary, Integrated, Natural Healthcare Education

The idea of a multi-disciplinary, academic health center with a natural health mission has evolved in the United States since the mid-1980s. This article includes a chart of the top eight such multi-disciplinary institutions in the US, and their programs. Under the leadership of James Winterstein, DC, the 100-year-old National College of Chiropractic was transformed into National University of Health Sciences and is consciously seeking to keep the disciplines out of separate academic silos. Can this institutional model become a countervailing influence for new paradigm health care?
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Poll on IHPC Interest in a Federal Office of Integrated Health Care: 63% Support, Negatives Intriguing

Roughly 63% of Integrator readers who participated in the poll (N=153) believe that creating a federal office for integrated health care "is critical for improving health care in the United States." Nearly a quarter expressed strong disagreement. Interestingly, a similar Integrator survey which focused on whether such an office was "critical for the future of CAM/IM" found only a small fraction who expressed disagreement. Leaders of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium are exploring ways to advance this federal agenda.
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Coalition Opposing the AMA SOPP Sets Next Steps at August Meeting

A now 31 organization Coalition for Patient Rights, organized to oppose the Scope of Practice Partnership (SOPP) of the American Medical Association, has taken steps to firm up its governance, clarify membership, and engage a plan to counter what appears to be a battle that will spread out over time. The AAOM, AANP-ND, IHPC and ACCAHC join the ACA as CAM-IM organizations at the table ... Lou Sportelli, DC, reflects on an earlier guild battle as the CPR prepares to respond to AMA-SOPPs Fables.
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