Nearly half of the US population is living with a chronic disease. A chronic disease is a prolonged illness that cannot be spontaneously resolved and can rarely be cured completely. Chronically ill patients feel more resentful, isolated, and prone to depression, stress, and anxiety; known factors which diminish a patient’s health. Studies indicate that support groups help patients to alleviate stress, depression, and cope with their illnesses. Currently there are many online support groups that help connect fellow patients of a chronic disease with each other while medical tools like WebMD help connect patients to an expert (not necessarily the patient’s own doctor). Triage is a system we are designing to bring together these connection mediums and provide chronic disease patients with a communication hub where they can connect with fellow patients, their own doctors, and researchers. Patients can share with fellow patients their personal journeys through the chronic disease, become friends with them, form groups, and view top posts from other patients. Patient to doctor communication will entail quick questions to the patient’s doctor, and short messages to the doctor that could easily answered without an appointment. Patients can also interact with researchers of their particular chronic disease who are looking for participants for their studies, can participate in studies, and get updates about new research in the field. Multiple usability tests will be conducted involving doctors, patients and researchers to evaluate and improve the overall design of the Triage project.