Case study · Papua New Guinea

ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital configures Pathology on MOANA LIS.

Implementation: mapped and configured

The Pathology department at ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lae has been mapped in full, from specimen receipt to result dispatch, and its requirements are met by existing MOANA LIS functionality. Verified results return to the patient record and to the requesting clinician. Go live is expected in the coming weeks.

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Moana team with Pathology staff at ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital — Pathology

CountryPapua New Guinea
SiteANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital, Lae, Morobe
DepartmentPathology
StatusImplementation
StageMapped and configured; go live expected in the coming weeks

Organisation profile

The regional referral hospital for the Momase Region.

ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lae is a Level 5 facility. It is the district hospital for Lae, the provincial hospital for Morobe Province and the regional referral hospital for the Momase Region, which covers Morobe, Madang, East Sepik and Sandaun and a catchment of about 2.8 million people.

Moana Digital Health works with the hospital in partnership with the Morobe Provincial Health Authority (MoPHA). Every department at ANGAU has been mapped with its Officer in Charge and team and is now configured in Moana, with go live expected in the coming weeks. The full engagement is described in the ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital case study.

Pathology at ANGAU

The Pathology department covers haematology, serology, microbiology and biochemistry, and sends selected tests to referral laboratories. Its results inform clinical decisions across the hospital.

The challenge

Closing the loop between the ordering clinician and the releasing scientist.

A laboratory result is only useful when it reaches the clinician who requested it, attached to the right patient, with evidence that it was checked before release. Each step between the order and the result is a point at which a request or a result can be delayed or lost.

The requirement was a single pathway from order to dispatch, with quality control and verification recorded at every step and the verified result filed to the patient record.

The approach

Mapped in full with laboratory staff, then matched to MOANA LIS.

The department was mapped from specimen receipt to result dispatch with laboratory staff. The mapping confirmed that the department’s requirements are met by existing MOANA LIS functionality, and the full test catalogue was configured across haematology, serology, microbiology and biochemistry.

The department note on Pathology at ANGAU describes the workflow in more detail.

Scope configured

From specimen receipt to verified result.

MOANA LIS is configured for the department’s full workflow:

The full test catalogue across haematology, serology, microbiology and biochemistry
Specimen handling from receipt through the laboratory
Result pathways back to the requesting clinician
Quality control recorded at every step
Send out testing to referral laboratories
Instrument integration through standard laboratory interfacing: orders sent electronically to the bench, and results returned to the LIS where reports are generated

Once a result is verified and dispatched by laboratory staff, it is in the patient record and with the requesting clinician. Release remains a decision of the laboratory team.

Because quality control and verification are recorded at every step, each released result carries a record of how it was produced and checked.

Governance and standards

Governance, standards and data ownership.

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.

Laboratory results are coded to LOINC, and the hospital’s data is exchanged with national systems through named standards, including HL7 FHIR R4. Health data remains under the control of ANGAU and MoPHA. Moana Digital Health maintains the system and provides support on site and remotely.

Modules

Standards

LOINC
HL7 FHIR R4

Status and next steps

Where the work stands.

September 2026Partnership commencedMoana Digital Health and ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital commence a partnership for digital health in Morobe.
October 2026Mapping and configuration completePathology mapped from specimen receipt to result dispatch and configured on MOANA LIS with laboratory staff.
NextGo live, rollout and staff training on siteGo live is expected in the coming weeks, with rollout and training delivered on site by the Moana team alongside the hospital’s own ICT staff.

Acknowledgements

With thanks.

Moana team with the Pathology team at ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital — With the Pathology team at ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital.

Moana Digital Health acknowledges the Officer in Charge and the staff of the Pathology department, together with Dr Kipas Binga, Chief Executive Officer, and the Senior Executive Management team of the Morobe Provincial Health Authority; Dr Steven James, Director Curative Health Services; Mr Francis Wau, ICT Manager, and the ICT team; and Mr Jayson Kum, Manager Medical Records.

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