Since IPT is apparently so safe and benign, there seems to be little keeping doctors from practicing it right now. Little except not knowing about it. Some research doctors will want to test IPT in controlled clinical trials. And other doctors will want to just jump in and start treating patients in their private or institutional practices. Funding mechanisms are already in place.
Institutions are already in place.
Mechanisms are already in place for gathering results and information from both pathways. As IPT catches on, we can foresee a biomedical scientific society forming around it, and probably at least one journal. And as IPT is applied to one disease after another, articles will appear in many different specialized publications. Social, economic, and political research. Since IPT could represent a significant evolution in medical treatment, with social, economic, and political repercussions, it is a great subject for social science research.