ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital completes configuration of Moana across 17 departments
ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lae, Papua New Guinea, has completed the mapping and configuration of all 17 of its departments in Moana, working with Moana Digital Health. Go live at ANGAU is expected in the coming weeks.
ANGAU operates under the Morobe Provincial Health Authority and is the regional referral hospital for the Momase region, which has a catchment of about 2.8 million people.
Clinical and operational scope
Each department’s workflow was mapped and configured with the staff who run it, from the Emergency Department and Medical Records to Pathology, Pharmacy and the TB DOTS Clinic.
The engagement began as a clinical pilot. Several departments outside the clinical areas, including Catering and Maintenance, subsequently asked to be included, and the scope was extended to cover them.
Governance and data ownership
ANGAU owns its data. Moana Digital Health maintains the system and provides support on site and remotely. 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.
Next steps
Rollout and staff training will take place on site, with the Moana team working alongside the hospital’s own ICT staff.
ANGAU has also asked about bringing its existing paper records into the system. Moana Digital Health offers two routes:
- import from existing spreadsheets and systems, or
- digitisation of paper records with a final human check before anything enters the record.
About Moana Digital Health
Moana Digital Health builds the electronic health record and national health information systems for health systems in low and middle income countries. The Moana platform connects clinics, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and ministries of health on a single clinical record, with national surveillance, medical supply and clinical research systems built on top. It is coded to international standards including FHIR R4, ICD 10, SNOMED CT and LOINC, and performs on stable and unreliable networks alike.
