The mission of the Internet Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma (I.S.O.S.T.) is to improve the quality of orthopaedic information on the Internet by providing a gateway, at all levels, to patient information, teaching material, CME, current research and discussion, by posting high quality orthopaedic content, by attracting onto the Internet a wider range of material and by setting standards for content quality.

ISOST is the academic global independent society supervising the OrthoGate Project. Membership in the organization is free.