Moana Digital Health partners with ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lae
Moana Digital Health has begun a partnership with ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
The objective is one record for each patient across the hospital, with reporting drawn from that record rather than from separate registers.
A regional referral hospital
ANGAU is a Level 5 facility and the second largest hospital in Papua New Guinea. It serves as the district hospital for Lae, the provincial hospital for Morobe and the regional referral hospital for the Momase region.
The Momase region has a catchment of about 2.8 million people across Morobe, Madang, East Sepik and Sandaun, with further referrals from the Highlands.
A hospital of that reach requires a record that maintains continuity of care across every department and every handover.
Approach
The work began with the Officers in Charge of departments across the hospital, followed by sessions with the remaining departments and the nursing teams. Structured work began with the Medical Records team and has proceeded department by department since.
Each department’s workflow is mapped with the staff who carry it out and configured in Moana with them before anything goes into use. Every department is now mapped and configured, and go live at ANGAU is expected in the coming weeks.
Governance and data sovereignty
The work is aligned to Papua New Guinea’s National Digital Health Strategy 2025 to 2030 and proceeds through the governance pathways of the Morobe Provincial Health Authority and the National Department of Health.
Moana records data against named standards, including HL7 FHIR R4, HL7 v2, ICD 10 and LOINC, so that the hospital’s data can be exchanged with national systems without custom interfaces.
ANGAU owns its data. Moana Digital Health maintains the system and provides support on site and remotely.
Next steps
The next phase is rollout and staff training on site, with the Moana team working alongside the hospital’s ICT team.
The hospital has also asked about bringing its existing paper records into the system, either by import from spreadsheets or by scanning, with a final human check before any record is accepted.
Acknowledgements
Moana Digital Health acknowledges Dr Kipas Binga, Chief Executive Officer, and the Senior Executive Management team of the Morobe Provincial Health Authority.
Moana Digital Health also thanks Dr Steven James, Director Curative Health Services, Mr Francis Wau and the ICT team, and Mr Jayson Kum, Manager Medical Records, for their coordination and support throughout.
