Providing cancer and other chronic disease and care management information, analysis and guidelines to chronic ill patients, their families, care providers, managed care organizations (MCO's), clinical research organizations (CRO's), at-risk providers, pharmaceutical entities, health maintenance organizations (HMO'S) and health insurance plans; providing MCOs, at-risk providers, HMOs and health insurance plans utilization review services by applying treatment guidelines to the course of treatment proposed by providers for specific patients with chronic diseases; providing information to others regarding chronic disease and care management and medical conditions, general medical information in the form of descriptions of customary standards of care, information regarding available treatments for chronic diseases and chronic disease treatment side effects and information in the form of aggregated data for the purpose of assisting analyses of medical outcomes; providing wellness, clinical and practical information for chronically ill patients and their families; providing chronic disease care management programs; providing database collection, analysis and reporting services concerning cost, frequency of procedures, prescriptions, and hospital and sub-acute care admissions and stays, and provider behavior, all in the field of chronic disease and care management; providing clinical trial matching between patients with chronic diseases and organizations conducting or administering clinical trials; providing application service provider (ASP) services in the form of licensing chronic disease management systems and hosting the services and resulting database collections for use by MCOs and CROs; providing the aforementioned services via a global computer network, telephone, written correspondence and/or personal meetings