Welcome to the Journal of Medical Internet Research

Welcome to the "Journal of Medical Internet Research" -JMIR, the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in healthcare using Internet and Intranet-related technologies.Why does the world need the JMIR?The Internet -and more specifically, the World-Wide-Web -has an impact on many areas of medicine -broadly we can divide them into "clinical information and telemedicine", "medical education and information exchange" and "consumer