Case study · Papua New Guinea
ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital configures blood transfusion traceability from donor to recipient on Moana.
Implementation: mapped and configuredThe Blood Transfusion Service at ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lae is configured in Moana to link donor, unit and recipient from collection to transfusion. Any unit can be traced back to its donor and forward to its recipient. Go live is expected in the coming weeks.
- CountryPapua New Guinea
- SiteANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital, Lae, Morobe
- DepartmentBlood Transfusion Service (Blood Bank Unit)
- 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.
The Blood Transfusion Service
The Blood Transfusion Service, the hospital’s Blood Bank Unit, carries out donor screening, grouping, infection testing, cross matching and issue. It reports every unit collected, transfused or discarded each month.
The challenge
Every unit accounted for, in both directions.
Transfusion safety depends on knowing, for every unit, who donated it, how it was tested and matched, and who received it. If a concern arises about a donor or a unit, the service must be able to find every recipient affected.
The service also reports each month on every unit collected, transfused or discarded. The requirement was one record that links donor, unit and recipient and produces that report from the same data.
The approach
The transfusion chain mapped with the Blood Bank Unit.
The service’s workflow was mapped with its staff from donor screening through grouping, infection testing and cross matching to issue, and configured in Moana with them.
The department note on the Blood Transfusion Service at ANGAU describes the workflow in more detail.
Scope configured
From collection to transfusion on one record.
The service is configured for:
- Donor screening and grouping
- Infection testing
- Cross matching and issue
- Donor, unit and recipient linked from collection to transfusion
- Tracing of any unit back to its donor and forward to its recipient
- Monthly reporting of every unit collected, transfused or discarded, drawn from the same data
Because donor, unit and recipient are linked in the record, a question about any unit can be answered in both directions without searching separate registers.
Monthly reporting is drawn from the data recorded in the course of the service’s work, so the report and the record agree.
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.
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.
Standards
- HL7 FHIR R4
- ICD 10
Status and next steps
Where the work stands.
Acknowledgements
With thanks.
Moana Digital Health acknowledges the Officer in Charge and the staff of the Blood Bank Unit, 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.
Read more
Department notes and the full engagement.
ANGAU Blood Bank Unit configured for traceability from donor to recipient
Donor, unit and recipient linked in one record at ANGAU, so every unit can be traced in both directions.
Read the postANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital prepares 17 departments for go live on Moana
All 17 departments mapped and configured with their own staff, with go live expected in the coming weeks.
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