Cancer CARE Registry Philippines Foundation, Inc., or "CARE Philippines", is a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Registration Number CN201704409). CARE Philippines created a WEBSITE APPLICATION as a tool for a Hospital-based Cancer Registry System, maintained by an organization of healthcare champions, patients, and their caregivers. In 2013, the Department of Health (DOH) through its Office of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases required the monthly submission by all hospitals of a list of all their patients with chronic diseases, including Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer (link to AO 2013-0005). Such information, including treatments given, would be included in nationwide registries which would allow public health officials to determine the incidence of these diseases and also to prioritize public health activities of the DOH. CARE Philippines started out as software tool that was made to facilitate the carrying out of the said DOH directive. It was created by Beatrice Jayme Tiangco, a practicing Medical Oncologist and Epidemiologist and Ric Parma a Health Information Technology specialist. Since its inception (2013), it has evolved into a loose organization of hospitals (CARE Hospitals) and their registry staff that use the CARE app as their hospital cancer registry (embedded into the hospital local area network) with a capacity to share their anonymized data with a secure and encrypted central database, and whose summary data is shared in this CARE Website. CARE Philippines has also partnered with various entities in the healthcare industry to bring other related programs and services – with its core as the website app – to benefit cancer patients. CARE Philippines recently received its PCNC (Philippine Council for NGO Certification) certification in August 2019.
