Practice Management
More than Half of U.S Physicians Recommend at Least One Complementary Health Approach to Patients
A new study has shown that more than half (53.1%) of office-based physicians in the U.S., across specialty areas, recommended at least one complementary health approach (CHA) to their patients during the previous 12 months, with female physicians (63.2%) more likely to recommend a CHA than male physicians (49.3%). ThisRead
[Case Study] Negotiating Your Career in Integrative Health and Medicine
Managing a busy consultancy, I work on wide-ranging projects with a diverse collection of medical providers, administrators and small business owners. I always find working with mid-career physicians seeking to reposition their professional futures an especially rewarding assignment. Typically well-trained and board certified, these integrative, functional and lifestyle medicine practitioners possessRead
Making Friends with Google’s Algorithm for your Health-Provider Website
From 2018 to 2019, Google made significant changes in its algorithm that affect health-provider websites. As is reported in John Week’s column on the subject, some alternative and integrative websites were hit pretty hard by the new rules. To help you with your practice’s marketing efforts, we’ve compiled some digitalRead
Leveraging Medical Savings Accounts for Integrative Health Products and Services
You possess a powerful tool to enhance your business and expand your influence and goodwill to your patients and customers. It’s called a medical savings account. Are you leveraging this tax-deferred tool? I have always wondered why integrative healthcare practices and businesses aren’t savvier at promoting the economic attributes ofRead
Is Race a Factor in Patient-Practitioner Interactions and when Prescribing Pain Medications?
A 62-year-old with stage IV lung cancer that has spread to his bones, causing unspeakable pain, is trying to convince his physician to prescribe pain medicine. What happens next? It actually could depend on if the patient is black or white. Or if the physician is a primary care providerRead
Fascinating! Group Visits May Outperform (Already Positive) Individual Outcomes at Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Is it possible that group visits can outperform individual visits in patient reported outcomes? The audience for an energetic panel discussion that touched on group visits at the February 2019 Integrative Healthcare Symposium heard an intriguing – though yet premature – data point. Panelist Mark Hyman MD noted that theRead
Electronic Records Biggest Cause of Physician Burnout
Physician burnout is real but getting better, according to a new report from Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Between October 12, 2017, and March 15, 2018, researchers at Mayo and Stanford University surveyed US physicians and a probability-based sample of the US working population (methods were similar to previous 2011 and 2014Read
The Integrative Health Business: ‘Administrators’ Versus ‘Builders’
I often see integrative and functional medicine business and organization leaders smothered from the weight of managing day-to-day operations: process and repetitive tasks allow neither adequate time nor sufficient resources to deal with strategic business development and execution. Rare are the super-competent administrators or business owners who are as savvyRead
Trusting, Leading, Leaning: Goals for Health Providers Everywhere
I may be naïve and I may over simplify at times, but for the subject of the doctor-patient relationship (DPR), I don’t think so. The DPR or practitioner patient relationship (PPR) is a relationship that I hold as sacrosanct – enacting a cone of silence to others as a sacredRead
Living and Leading with Resilience, by Adam Perlman, MD
By Adam Perlman, MD, MPH / Leaders in healthcare, as in all industries, have the responsibility to support employees’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This support can take many forms, but there is one challenge in particular that affects every corner of the workforce: stress. The Centers for Disease ControlRead
