FON: The Business of Integrative Health & Medicine

Integrative Health Prescription for 2018

Though 2017 is closing with a booming stock market that equals wealth for the U.S., the subject of health [care] for our population will not end quite as positively. In addition to rising insurance costs and deductibles, the U.S. population is dealing with deep-seated confusion and anxiety over tax reform law that takes coverage away…

Social Media’s Free Ride Is Over: Challenges and Opportunities

As an Integrative health organization that has invested significant time and resources building audiences on social media, you are now faced with a stark reality: You do not own your profiles… nor your followers, likes, and subscribers; you simply rent them. The rules of engagement are beyond your control. The social media ‘organic reach’ free…

Advancing the Global Impact of Integrative Oncology

Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) spearheads publication in JNCI Institute Monographs, titled ‘Advancing the Global Impact of Integrative Oncology’.

Customer Service in the Age of Integrative and Functional Medicine

Does the end-to-end customer experience your integrative health organization delivers align with a service ethos that drives retention, ensures loyalty, and creates fervent word-of-mouth referrals?

Quality Counts: A Clinician’s Guide to Supplement Quality

Special report on how nutritional supplements are defined, manufactured, and regulated.

Integrative Health’s Place in Medical School Curricula

Only by teaching young medical students about health creation—their own, first—will they become healthier students and, ultimately, healthier practicing physicians. This will also position this next generation of docs to transmit these same teachings to their patients.

When Alternative Cancer Care Kills

Glenn Sabin shares his thoughts on the dangers and misconceptions of alternative cancer care, in contrast to evidence-informed integrative oncology.

Now, More Than Ever, Professional Dietary Supplement Quality Counts

The state of supplement regulation and quality assurance is far more evolved than the industry’s loudest critics choose to believe. But it is far less thorough and consistent than advocates care to admit. There is clearly much room for improvement.

Are Physician Online Dietary Supplement Sales Legal?

Are physician online dietary supplement sales, kickbacks or fee-splitting? Attorney Michael H. Cohen discusses the legal challenge of physician online dietary supplement sales.

Independent Contractor Physician—Kickback or Compensation?

If you’re a successful physician, chiropractor, acupuncturist, or other licensed healthcare provider, and you want to provide overflow patients to another practitioner you hire, then this post if for you. By Michael H. Cohen

 
 
 

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