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ACCAHC White Paper: Meeting the Nation's Primary Care NeedsThis project, engaged with Michael Goldstein, PhD, of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, examines the current and prospective roles of doctors of chiropractic, naturopathic physicians, doctors and practitioners of acupuncture and Oriental medicine and direct entry midwives in meeting nation's primary care needs. ACCAHCronymsA handy list of acronyms often used here at ACCAHC can be seen here. Integration Related DefinitionsFor a comparison of integration related definitions, click here. Research Priorities: Re 2011-2015 NCCAM Strategic PlanFrom October 2009-February 2011, the ACCAHC Research Working group led an active ACCAHC communication with the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) on the development of the agency's 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. This entailed clarifying shared priorities that supported ACCAHC's mission of enhancing patient care. The ACCAHC letters are available here: ACCAHC-NCCAM 2011-2015 Strategic Plan Quarterly ReportsNote: Starting in mid-2010, ACCAHC began sending an electronic newsletter 1-2 times per month. This has taken the place of the Quarterly Reports. All participants in ACCAHC activities including Associate Members and Individual College Members receive the newsletter. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for information about receiving it..Recorded DialoguesRight-click on files below and save to your computer to listen to them. (You can also left-click but it will try to play while it is downloading if you do that).
Dialogue between ACCAHC Research Working Group members and Dr. Joe Selby of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Instititute (PCORI), a new quasi-public agency established under the Affordable Care Act. PCORI's charge, with an annual budget anticipated to be over $600-million, is to engage patients and providers in research questions that are closer to real world needs and priorities. Selby credited ACCAHC's role in a September 2011 presentation to the PCORI Board of Governors for stimulating PCORI to specifically list "CAM" as an area of exploration. Transcript link is included below.
Competencies and Education Strategies to Prepare for Practice in Integrated/Inpatient Environments The focus of ACCAHC's Education Working Group and Clinical Care Working Group on competencies and skills for practice in integrated care environments led to this invite to Lori Knutson, RN, BSN, HN-BC, the director of the nation's most significant inpatient-outpatient integrative initiative. Knutson directs the Penny George Institute, a part of the Allina Hospital system through which she has overseen delivery of over 60,000 integrative care inpatient visits since 2004 through a staff of two dozen practitioners. Knutson has gained expertise in the skills and special training of integrative practitioners for optimal performance in inpatient environments. Included is a discussion of why some types of practitioners are presently included and others not in the Allina model. Knutson fields questions from roughly a dozen ACCAHC leaders among 25 on the call. optimized MP3 version, 14 megabytes iTunes AAC version, 20 megabytes
Positioning ACCAHC Disciplines in Emerging Healthcare Workforce and Primary Care Environments Under the 2010 Congressional healthcare overhaul legislation, licensed complementary and alternative healthcare practitioners are included as professions deserving of inclusion in the nation's healthcare planning efforts. For over two decades, Richard A. "Buz" Cooper, MD, DSc, a national leader on issues related to the supply of physicians and nonphysician clinicians, has urged that members of ACCAHC disciplines be included in workforce and "first contact" care planning. He spoke on the topic at the 2009 IOM Summit. Cooper is Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania; past Vice President and Dean, Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a member of the ACCAHC Council of Advisers. Cooper fields questions from numerous ACCAHC leaders on the call. Teledialogue with Buz Cooper Wednesday April 28, mp3 version, (about 14.2 megabytes)
History and Best Practices in Interprofessional Education/Care John Gilbert, PhD is perhaps the international leader in interprofessional education/care (IPE/C). He directs the Canadian Collaboration for Interprofessional Education. He was on the founding steering committee of the American Interprofessional Healthcare Collaborative. He also is serving as co-chair of the Collabioration Across the Borders IPE/C conference in November 2011. Gilbert was the keynote presenter at the ACCAHC Biennial Meeting 2011. He has joined ACCAHC's Council of Advisers. Teledialogue with John Gilbert, November 11, 2010, mp3 version(about 13.8 megabytes) Survey ReportsThis survey and interview process was engaged with conventional medical doctors and, in one case, a board certified holistic nurse (RN, HN-BC) to explore the competencies of AOM practitioners which they had hired in order. The project focus was to determine those factors which best support AOM practitioners playing an optimal role in patient care in these settings. This survey and interview process was engaged to explore the competencies of AOM practitioners which best support their playing an optimal role in patient care in these settings. A three page survey was developed with reviews from two multi-disciplinary teams. Survey sections focuses on identifying useful training and quantifying the importance of a set of 25 topics in a session to prepare AOM practitioners. Interprofessional Education/Care (IPE/C) Events and Resources
October 2012 ICECIM PresentationsMichael S. Goldstein, PhD - UCLA School of Public Health and Center for Health Policy Research and John Weeks - Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care Beth Rosenthal, PhD, MBA, MPH, Jerrilyn Cambron, LMT, DC, MPH, PhD, Whitney Lowe, LMT, Cynthia Price, PhD, LMT, NCTMB, John Weeks Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA and Michael Wiles, DC, MEd, MS
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