The major areas identified in this paper needing guidelines are:

- Determining the nature of the doctor-patient, provider-patent, or therapist-client relationships.

- Defining what constitutes online medicine, online therapy and online research.

- Establishing what is Researching and what is “Lurking” in online settings.

- Establishing ethical guidelines for soliciting research participants, online.

- Respecting the right to privacy vs. collecting research information on site visitors.