Meeting the Nation's Primary Care Needs
This 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.
Clinicians’ and Educators’ Desk Reference on the Licensed Complementary and Alternative Healthcare Professions
This guide to the 5 licensed complementary and alternative healthcare professions, written by vetted experts, is a desk reference for clinicians and a textbook and resource for educators and students. Also included is information on emerging fields of traditional world medicines, holistic nursing and holistic and integrative medicine.
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Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC)
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ACCAHC Accomplishments at a Glance 2004-present June 2014
A list of some of ACCAHC's accomplishments in creating and sustaining a network of global educational organizations and agencies, fostering mutual understanding, collaborative activities and interdisciplinary healthcare education.
Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report profiles the experiences of more than 20 hospitals and community health centers that utilize interprofessional collaboration to achieve better patient outcomes. The report, "Lessons From the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices," helps health care entities assess the potential benefits of interprofessional collaboration and offers a road map to implementing the approach.
Conflict in medical teams: Opportunity or danger?
OBJECTIVES: Intragroup conflicts often occur when people are called upon to collaborate in the accomplishment of a task. For example, when surgeons and nurses work together during an operation, conflicts may emerge because of differences in functional understanding. Whether these conflicts are beneficial or detrimental to team outcomes has been the source of much debate. From one perspective, a conflict that stems from differences in members' functional understanding may enhance team members' understanding and performance of the task at hand.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Blog
Health and health care now occupy a well-deserved place of prominence in the national conversation. Prompted in part by the debate over health reform, we are now starting to examine and question virtually everything we know, or thought we knew, about our health care system—and our own roles and responsibilities as users of that system.
What we’re seeing is a marked shift away from blithe acquiescence to the status quo, and toward creating a "culture of health."
But what does that mean?
The Patient-to-Consumer Revolution
In the follow-up to The Volume-to-Value Revolution, Tom Main and Adrian Slywotzky describe how seemingly unrelated phenomena—high-tech health entrepreneurs, personal fitness devices, retail clinics in big-box stores, “smart care” teams, and IBM Watson—are creating a new health market where demand trumps supply.