A practical strategy, integrative medicine puts the patient at the center of the care and addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect a person’s health.
Mapping the Field of Integrative Medicine
Wishing to determine how integrative medicine has emerged within the health care system over the past decade, The Bravewell Collaborative has commissioned a new mapping study. The survey, which will be completed in 2012, will be invaluable, providing health care systems and payors with the opportunity to understand which models of care have the greatest potential to improve Americans' health and wellbeing and to reduce the exploding costs—personal, financial and societal—of chronic disease.
The mapping study will identify which leading institutions have developed models of integrative care and answer the following questions:
- How is integrative medicine defined and practiced?
- What models of care are in use, including care planning, patient engagement, and processes used to track health status, anticipate events and personalize care?
- What data supports the model’s efficacy?
- What data supports its cost-effectiveness?
- What patient populations are being treated?
- What are the most prevalent diseases being treated?
- How is the care paid for?
- What does the organization credit as the biggest factors in the successful implementation of its model?
Learn about earlier Bravewell Mapping projects