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The Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC) is a broad coalition of clinicians, patients, healthcare educators and organizations committed to public policy that ensures all Americans access to safe, high quality, health care including the full range of qualified conventional, complementary and alternative healthcare professionals. Integrated Health Care describes a coordinated system in which healthcare professionals are educated about one another's work and collaborate with one another, and with their patients, to achieve optimal well-being for the patient.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 includes significant provisions in support of integrative health, wellness, prevention and patient-centered research. Passage of the bill, however, is only one step toward putting the law into effect. Next is the all-important "rule-making process" in which the specifics of how the law is implemented will be determined. This is also an opportune moment to envision the next aspects of health care reform in support of patient-centered integrated care, and to refine the research agenda on patient outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
The Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium, in partnership with The Institute for Integrative Health and the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Health Policy is hosting an invitational conference to address these critical opportunities and responsibilities. A wide range of integrative healthcare stakeholders have been invited to strategize a comprehensive engagement in the healthcare reform process.
Conference participants will hear from current and former legislative staffers, outside experts, and Department of Health and Human Services personnel regarding sections of the new law that bear on opportunities for and mechanisms to provide integrated prevention-oriented health care. Working in a series of facilitated small and large group topic-oriented sessions, they will craft strategy for implementation of the Affordable Care Act and further reform.
Outcomes will include broad dissemination of a conference report, legislative briefings, and a deepening of relationships across disciplines within the integrated healthcare community. This conference will be an important platform for collaboration in phase two of healthcare reform, focusing on a redefinition of health and further restructuring of our healthcare delivery systems.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act) is a remarkable achievement. It provides health care insurance to million of Americans who would otherwise be without it. It vastly expands the system of Community Health Centers in the United States that has proven to be an efficient and cost-effective model for provision of quality primary care. This law also includes provisions that begin to redirect the US healthcare system towards a patient-oriented health promotion system and health services delivery that supports collaborative health care among health professionals, including conventional, complementary and alternative care providers.
IHPC has been involved in creation of the Affordable Care Act and we will continue to be involved in its implementation, as well as in its enhancement through further health care reform. Here you can find the full law as passed, a summary of highlighted provisions relevant to integrated health care, and our plans for a conference to ensure appropriate implementation of this law and to plan for next phases of reform.
Warmest regards,
View the bill, as signed (this is a .pdf file)
View IHPC highlights (this is a .doc file)
View the folks on our Federal Policy Committee
Top Goals in 2010
1. Convene Stakeholder Conference on Integrated Health Care Reform to help the integrated health care community stay organized for implementation of the Affordable Care Act and beyond! See the description above.
2. Continue the growth and expand the impact of our Online Action Network including strengthened use of the OAN to set the IHPC agenda. Click here to complete our member survey now.
3. Srategically grow our Partners for Health Program.
4. Energize our focus on integrated policy beginning with action on environmental policies that affect Americans' health. This new focus was recommended by our constituents and affirmed by the board of directors.
5. Ensure that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented in ways that serve:
Top Accomplishments in 2009
1. Creation of the first Online Action Network for integrated health care patients and clinicians. Together we sent thousands of messages to legislators, Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, the Congressional Budget Office, and other strategic targets.
2. Staff expansion to support growing online action.
3. Work on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act included submission of formal testimony to the HELP Committee for its February 2009 hearings and continual work with legislators to secure key provisions for integrated health care. For more detail, see this summary (CLAIRE DO LINK HERE).
4. IHPC worked with the Samueli Institute to create the Wellness Initiative for the Nation. This document strongly influenced the Affordable Care Act, particularly its attention to prevention.
5. Janet Kahn, IHPC's Executive Director presented at the prestigious IOM Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public, was invited to provide input on NCCAM's 3rd Five-year Strategic Plan, participated in the Stakeholder Symposium on the Evidentiary Framework for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM), and was a panel member at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium speaking on Integrated Health Care Policy: Building the Road.
IHPC's Partners for Health program is made up of non-profit educational and advocacy organizations across the CAM / conventional spectrum, working together toward our shared goals.
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