Who we are
Every patient admitted to hospital deserves outstanding results. St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital focuses on providing first class treatment to patients to achieve world class results. However, it takes vision, leadership, skills, resources and commitment to deliver these results consistently. The purpose of St Andrew’s Medical Institute (SAMI) is to facilitate the achievement of these outcomes by collaborating with first-class private specialists and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital. St Andrew’s doctors are not only expert practitioners but they are also strongly committed to the clinical excellence necessary to underpin the world-class results of the hospital. In applying to work at the hospital, medical practitioners agree to participate in practice and outcomes auditing, as well as in education and research. SAMI focuses on refining the methodologies behind the clinical practice with the intent of developing performance standards and methods to inform clinician-led change to ensure the best patient results. SAMI aims to be an international leader in bringing a system of applied medical intelligence to the delivery of clinical excellence.  Our commitment to clinical excellence allied with strong leadership and cutting edge research mechanisms will propel us toward this vision.

What we do
The purpose of SAMI is to facilitate first class treatment to patients by collaborating with private specialists and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital in practice and outcomes auditing, as well as in education and research. Specifically, SAMI focuses on refining the methodologies behind the clinical practice with the intent of developing performance standards and methods to inform clinician-led change to optimise medical treatment and enable patients to quickly return to the best possible quality of life.

Our Vision

The St Andrew’s Medical Institute (SAMI) aims to be a leader in research methodologies and improved patient outcomes.  With an active partnership with Visiting Medical Practitioners and a strong relationship with St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital we will pursue links with Australia’s leading Universities to leverage this broad clinical and academic input.  Further, SAMI is actively pursuing Government, Industry

and Community support to fund its original research and to assist SAMI in the development of a strong and sustainable future.

The St Andrew's Medical Institute has committed itself to improving patient care through scientific audit and sequential analysis of actual patient data. The strength of our outcomes research program stems from the outstanding results and setting of St Andrews, our vision, leadership and clinical data.  SAMI has committed itself to creating an integrated clinical performance system for optimising medical treatment and enabling patients to quickly return to the best possible quality of life.  The Medical Institute’s unique access to the clinically-rich environment of St Andrew’s Hospital enables a powerful synergy between all activities within this system to be integrated, including:

• Developing applied clinical, mathematical, and analytical methodologies to evaluate and monitor clinical and patient outcomes.
• Auditing treatment results and patient experiences based on robust data infrastructure and performance monitoring tools.
• Creating performance standards and using actual procedural data in clinician-led research, to derive new benchmarks for patients’ treatment and results.
• Collaborating with leading medical, academic and industry partners to devise innovative education and change management strategies which translate to better results for patients

SAMI-Net
SAMI has worked with clinical, academic and technology partners to develop a single powerful technology platform which is central to the Applied Medical Intelligence® Project and:

• Provides integrated data management analysis and reporting processes;
• Enables real-time risk-adjusted performance monitoring and review for clinical audit, clinical governance and risk management;
• Facilitates risk-adjusted benchmarking of patient outcomes against local, national or international criteria;
• Informs practical outcome-focussed education strategies and clinician-led change management processes;
• Supports patient outcome research in multiple medical and surgical specialties.