When you think of Chinese medicine, just think the word BREATHE, which is what you'll be able to do easier after the treatment. BREATHE is an acronym for many components of Chinese medicine without getting too redundant.

B- Bodywork - Massage, Tuina, Cupping, Gua Sha, etc
R- Review the ROOT cause of the symptoms
E- Eating or Nutrition including supplements and vitamins
A- Acupuncture, E-stim or TENS, laser acupuncture
T- Tai Qi - learning this martial art has unlimited value and health benefits
H- Herbal medicine including single herbs as well as formulas - Chinese and herbs from around the world
E- Exercise - Qi Gong or whatever exercise the patient will comply with. Qi gong is the easiest and doesn't require extra space or equipment.

By introducing the medicine as a whole, the patient can choose other modalities than acupuncture until he/she feels more comfortable and courageous to try it. Once the patient likes and trusts the practitioner, they will be more likely to try new therapies and comply with the treatment.

I can believe a product such as hoodie is a safel ong term weight loss aide. Sensible food intake and lifestyle change is the best long term remedy. Try cutting out sugar, limited fat and cholesterol and eat mostly chicken fish veggies and good carbs. I did and lost 45 lbs. Changed what massage therapy eat forever and have not gained an ounce back in 4 years. Massage therapy also says you can look into your good health now and it is not too late. A diet and nutrition program is successful when it is motivates you do to the right thing and something that your body needs. When you modify the way you eat little bit. It will do well for your health and overall look. You will also notice how your skin beings to glow. A good diet and nutrition program is comprised of various parts and there are certain basics that have to be included in your diet and nutrition program.

I am considering moving from the old paper/file format for a few reasons:
Pros

• Clean and professional
• Intragrative system of booking/case management/and payments
• Better more effective communication among practitioners.
• Future standard friendly
• Templates and forms for wider ranges of use (for example: you can have 10 different types of forms/templates easily instead of a one-size-fits-all)
• mobile access anywhere anytime
• One of the biggest reasons is long term tracking of complex cases and drug/herb interactions and long term tracking between multiple practitioners to analyse metadata. This leads to the next point:
• If we we truly want integrative medicine, this facilitates the best means of cross referral communication.

Cons:

• Biggest con is privacy. It is of greater concern to patients when files are kept electronically.
• Some learning curve of use.
• Lack of certain functions like drawing diagrams or areas of pain.
• Incompatibility between different software versions may make importing/exporting/backing up/ or changing EHR system difficult or impossible.
• Some practitioners may not be willing or open to use such a system.
• Most systems are designed for Western Medicine and as such, need re-modeling to fit a TCM practice.

These are what I am looking at:
www.drchrono.com
www.practicefusion.com

What do you think?