June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a dedicated time to focus on our cognitive well-being. As part of our special coverage for this awareness month, we are focusing on the power of early prevention by highlighting recent research published in JMIR Research Protocols. While progressive neurological diseases are deeply complex, proactive strategies initiated early in life can profoundly impact your brain health. In this installment, we look at DementiaRisk, an award-winning digital education platform developed by researchers at McMaster University, designed to bridge critical knowledge gaps and turn evidence-based risk reduction into manageable daily habits.

Clarivate has released Journal Citation Reports 2026, including 2025 Journal Impact Factor results for 24 JMIR Publications journals. Of these, 12 ranked in the first quartile of their primary subject categories, 3 received a Journal Impact Factor for the first time, and 5 improved their quartile ranking over the prior year.

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a dedicated time to focus on our cognitive well-being. As part of our special coverage for this awareness month, JMIR Publications is hosting a blog series highlighting how proactive strategies and supportive environments can drastically improve the trajectory of cognitive decline. In this installment, we shift our focus to everyday digital tools and explore how mobile applications, conversational AI, and pocket-sized chatbots are finding a home in daily dementia management to support both patients and caregivers.

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a dedicated time to focus on our cognitive well-being and honor the essential role of care partners. As part of our special coverage for this awareness month, we are shifting our focus from patient-centered tracking to the caregivers themselves—the family members, companions, and personal support workers who are the backbone of daily care. Highlighting recent research from JMIR Aging, this post explores how mobile-friendly, asynchronous e-learning platforms are transforming dementia training, helping care partners gain the knowledge and empathy needed to support those they care for with greater confidence.

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a dedicated time to focus on our cognitive well-being. As part of our special coverage for this awareness month, we are exploring how smart home environments are redefining safety for older adults aging in place. Highlighting recent research published in JMIR Aging, this post examines how shifting from intrusive surveillance to passive, AI-powered monitoring can create an invisible safety net—preserving both patient independence and family peace of mind.

JMIR Publications, a leading publisher of academic journals dedicated to digital health and open science, today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a three-year partnership with MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review). The collaboration will focus on integrating MetaROR’s publish-review-curate platform with JMIR’s innovative publishing ecosystem—specifically its JMIRx overlay journal series, including JMIRx Med and JMIRx Bio.

Formative evaluation is a vital pillar of implementation science, used to identify early barriers to adoption before deploying new health technologies. Traditionally, this process relies on gathering stakeholders’ expectations through preuse questionnaires. While this works well for standard screen-based apps, it hits a bottleneck when applied to immersive systems like Extended Reality (XR).

Adolescence is a critical window for building lifelong health habits, yet young people face an evidence gap when it comes to high quality, scientifically backed digital wellness tools. A staggering 98% of available stress management apps lack peer reviewed research supporting their design.

The dust has settled at the Moscone Center and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 2026 Annual Meeting is officially in the books! It was an incredible week in San Francisco. While I spent my days talking about open access journals at our booth and my evenings soaking up the surprisingly warm San Francisco weather after the exhibit floor closed, the incredible energy surrounding the future of digital mental health was obvious the entire week.

Telemedicine is a cornerstone of modern digital health strategies, promising to bridge geographic gaps and bring clinical care directly to patients. However, as virtual consultations become routine, a critical question emerges: are patients around the world sufficiently protected by legal and ethical infrastructure?