Free Access: Seminal Paper on Integrating Top 10 Dietary Supplements Into Cancer Care
Important paper authored by Clinical Practice Committee of Society for Integrative Oncology provides guidance on incorporating top 10 supplements for cancer care.
FON: The Business of Integrative Health & Medicine
Tagged as: complementary alternative medicine
How to Improve Your Integrative Medicine Brand Identity
Your brand name and logo are the first things a prospective customer (patient) typically encounters when searching for an integrative healthcare provider.
PCORI Includes ‘CAM’ in First Funding Announcement
Notably, the list of 25 initial PCORI awards includes two that are CAM or integrative health focused. One is Evaluation of a Patient-Centered Risk Stratification Method for Improving Primary Care for Back Pain. The second is led by University of Pittsburgh researcher Michael Schneider, DC, PhD: A Comparison of Non-Surgical Treatment Methods for Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.
UPDATE: Insurance Coverage for Integrative Healthcare Services in 2014
Section 2706 of the Affordable Care Act prevents health insurance plans from capriciously excluding a range of integrative health practitioners from coverage, based solely on licensure. While HHS Secretary Sibelius moves forward to ensure its implementation, the AMA contemplates what actions they may take to upend this landmark non-discrimination language.
Integrative Medicine is a Story, Not an Advertisement
In contrast to interruptive forms of advertising, content development allows integrative healthcare providers the opportunity to create thoughtfully crafted stories. Done right and targeted, storytelling engages. It has the profound power to connect on an emotional level.
Hospital Systems Ignore Integrative Medicine at their Peril
The majority of hospital systems and cancer centers in major U.S. markets now offer an integrative medicine program of some shape or form.
16 Blogging Basics for Your Integrative Medicine Brand
Following these rules to activate the writing of your blog posts—even if you are not a prolific scribe—will help keep your writing focused.
Integrative Medicine Thought Leadership
Thought leadership in any industry is important, but in the medical world it is essential for success. If you aspire to influence colleagues, peers, administrative decision-makers or the public, you need to become a thought leader. If you aim to influence those in your field and beyond—and the consumer public at the national or international level—there is simply no other practical route to get there.
Integrative Healthcare: Same Camp, Many Tents
It never fails to amaze how this growing but still fragmented subset of medicine that is integrative healthcare is comprised of so many loosely affiliated groups and monikers. Here’s a partial list: Integrative Medicine, Functional Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, Longevity Medicine, Naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Chiropractic Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine.
How to Get Paid Delivering Integrative Medicine
The future of evidence-based integrative healthcare delivery is limited to its economic feasibility, at both the consumer and practitioner level. This post focuses on the latter.
