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From the Editor

Greetings From East Timor: The Power Of The Web

The health care sphere, compared with other economic sectors, has come more slowly to recognize the power of the Internet. I count myself among those who did not quickly grasp its potential, but recently I experienced my epiphany in a most unexpected way. I sent an e-mail to a colleague at the World Bank about getting together for lunch. Within minutes, a world away, he replied: "Greetings from East Timor." This simple exchange instantly demonstrated to me the Internet’s worldwide reach. Since publication of our Nov/Dec 2000 issue on e-health, the full text of Health Affairs has been available online to subscribers, <www.healthaffairs.org>, with an archive dating to our first issue (1981). In March 2001 we began publishing papers exclusively on our Web site. Such papers are subjected to the same rigorous peer-review standards as journal articles, but their dissemination on the Web enables us to make time-sensitive material available more rapidly. For example, we published our first "Web exclusive" March 17, when Congress was moving rapidly to consider the Bush administration’s tax reform proposals. The author of "A Flexible Benefits Tax Credit for Health Insurance and More," Lynn Etheredge, was invited a few days later by the House Ways and Means Committee to testify to the ideas contained in his paper. To make certain that Web-exclusive papers receive their due recognition, we are featuring them in the journal’s table of contents and publishing their one-page abstracts. Our latest Web exclusive, "Reevaluation of Capitation Contracting in New York and California," by Jamie Robinson and Larry Casalino, is abstracted in this issue. We welcome reactions to our Web strategy from interested readers.

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor


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