The Blueprint for Functional Medicine in Big Health Systems
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- Building functional medicine into a conventional health system requires real infrastructure — smart phrases, practice guidelines, and templated tools that let clinicians translate what they learned at IFM into day-to-day practice while still meeting RVU and billing requirements.
- Trust across a system is built deliberately, not assumed — Laura and Kate created a two-day CME training for primary care providers and specialists, run six times over two years, which increased referrals and shifted colleagues toward more holistic thinking.
- Group medical visits (nutritionist-led and practitioner/nutritionist co-led) solved a major access problem, and the demand they saw for translating functional medicine into practice led Laura and Kate to launch a new company, Whole Health NP, to teach other practitioners how to do the same.
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