What is the impact of Integrative Medicine in Medical Schools and Health Care Organizations?

Integrative medicine is, in part, now taught, practiced and researched in nearly half the medical schools in the country. These include such leading universities as Duke, Harvard, Yale, University of California San Francisco, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia.

Prestigious health care organizations such as the Mayo Clinics in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, and Scripps Health in Southern California among others operate integrative medicine centers that work in collaboration with the larger system.

Additionally, research projects studying the clinical and cost effectiveness of an integrative approach for employee health programs are being conducted by the Corporate Health Improvement Program, (CHIP), a collaborative research program between theUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and Fortune 500 corporations including Ford, Prudential, IBM, Pfizer, Corning, Pepsi, Nestle, and NASA.

These facts clearly reflect its potential to provide transformative change to the health care system.

IntegratIve Medicine: Improving Health Care for Patients and Health Care Delivery for Providers and Payors.  A Bravewell Collaborative Report