Providing a web-based service featuring technology and online non-downloadable software that enables users to select and compare health care providers such as physicians, hospitals and other types of caregivers for purposes including but not limited to creating or updating physician and health care provider directories and physician and health care provider recruiting through an analysis of physician and health care provider records maintained in a computer database, including records of individual physicians and health care providers, contact information, locations, specialties, health care facilities and more, as determined by the customer, to manage, compile and systemize physician and health care provider data into computer databases, to verify and check accuracy, to generate reports, and to provide consulting related to physician and health care provider data