Building a better future for specialist diagnostic care
Our mission is to provide universal access to specialist ultrasound while supporting the sonographers who deliver it.
Specialist diagnostic expertise should never be limited by geography
Every person deserves timely access to high-quality specialist diagnostic care regardless of where they live.
We believe technology has an important role to play not by replacing clinical expertise but by enabling it to reach more people. By separating the physical task from the clinical expertise new models of care can bring specialist care closer to communities while better supporting the sonographers who deliver it.
Everything we do begins with that belief.
Our Vision
A future where every person has timely access to specialist diagnostic care regardless of where they live.
Our Purpose
To connect clinical expertise with robotic-enabled technology creating flexible models of care that bring specialist diagnostic services closer to communities and better support sonographers.
Our Story
Recognising the challenge
RMI Oceania was founded in 2019 by Professor Adam Scott who had seen firsthand the challenges of delivering specialist cardiovascular services to Queensland’s regional, rural and remote communities.
RMI was established to develop and commercialise the Robotic Ultrasound Assistance System (RUAS) creating a new way to connect specialist expertise with patients who might otherwise travel long distances to access care.
Before establishing RMI Professor Scott successfully implemented a Tele-Cardiac Investigations Program across 22 Queensland Health hospitals demonstrating the potential for specialist expertise to be delivered beyond traditional healthcare settings.
Turning research into innovation
The Tele-Cardiac Investigations Program demonstrated the potential to deliver specialist expertise beyond traditional healthcare settings and became a catalyst for the development of RMI. The program’s outcomes were subsequently published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
Working in partnership with the Centre for Robotics at Queensland University of Technology RMI brought together clinical expertise and advanced engineering to develop a new model for delivering specialist diagnostic care.
From research to clinical practice
Since early 2022 RMI has operated within a Queensland tertiary public hospital, providing a real-world clinical environment for sonographer training, technology refinement and cardiac and abdominal robotic ultrasound trials.
Developing and evaluating the technology within a live clinical environment has helped ensure each stage of its development remains grounded in clinical practice and the needs of patients and clinicians.
Delivering care beyond distance
Today RMI is progressing remote validation trials with systems deployed in Longreach and Cloncurry and specialist sonographers operating remotely from Brisbane.
These deployments are demonstrating how specialist diagnostic expertise can be delivered across distance bringing specialist care closer to communities and reducing geography as a barrier to access.
Our Journey
2019
RMI established
Founded and developed Robotic Ultrasound Assistance System (RUAS).
2020-21
From concept to prototype
Proof of concept developed with QUT's robotics team. QUT’s School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics.
2022
Clinical integration
RUAS enters a Queensland tertiary public hospital and pilot clinical trials commence and PCT patent is filed.
2023-24
Towards clinical readiness
Pre-commercial system developed with continued clinical trials, product testing and verification.
2025
Remote clinical services commence
Pivotal clinical trials completed and remote echocardiography commences between Brisbane, Longreach and Cloncurry.
Next
Expanding specialist diagnostic care
Progressing regulatory pathways and broader healthcare delivery.
Explore the clinical evidence
Better healthcare is built through collaboration.
RMI brings together clinical expertise, engineering, research and healthcare partnerships to develop practical, evidence-based solutions to real healthcare challenges.
Clinical
Expertise
Grounded in clinical need and shaped by the expertise of sonographers and the patients they serve.
Engineering Innovation
Advanced engineering designed around real clinical needs and healthcare challenges.
Research & Evidence
Informed by research, clinical validation and real-world experience.
Healthcare Partnerships
Working alongside healthcare providers, universities and industry partners to develop practical, sustainable models of specialist diagnostic care.
Our Team
RMI’s leadership brings together expertise across clinical medicine, engineering, research and healthcare innovation. United by a shared purpose our team is committed to advancing new models of specialist diagnostic care.
Andrew is one of the world’s pre-eminent cardiologists and an experienced academic leader and entrepreneur with over three decades working in globally ranked top 50 Universities. He has over 750 peer-reviewed full papers, over 150,000 career citations and an H-Index of 157.
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He has been named one of the top 1,000 researchers of all time by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, and as the top cardiology researcher in Australia.
He is the author of more than 20 awarded patents and has launched three successful spin-out biotechnology companies with capital raises in excess of US$100 million and licensing deals of more than US$1 billion.
Andrew is a fully accredited physician and cardiologist in the United Kingdom and Australia, a qualified company director (London Business School MBA, Fellow Australian Institute of Company Directors and Member, Institute of Directors, London) with more than 60 board years of experience.
He holds two higher doctorates (DM, Oxon, and DSc, Imperial) for separate research areas and has held senior offices in 5 major Professional Societies, and has been President of the largest specialist society in his field (the Heart Failure Association).
Adam is Director, Cardiac Sciences at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Queensland. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor with Queensland University of Technology in the School of Public Health and Social Work.
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Adam is an experienced Health Director with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry. He is skilled in clinical research, charity work, medical education, strategic planning, and lecturing, with a PhD focused in Cardiac Medicine from Imperial College London.
Adam is the clinical driving force behind the RMI tele-robotic ultrasound technology. This venture follows his world-first development of a cardiovascular tele-medicine clinical service via his remote-control operated cardiology program, including Holter monitoring and exercise stress testing, which was deployed across Queensland’s rural health facilities for rural and disadvantaged communities. This work was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
Anthony is the Managing Director of leading Australian importation and distribution organisation, Polymer Direct, which he established in 1997 following various strategic roles in the Australia petrochemical and raw materials sector.
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Anthony contributes over 35 years of hands-on commercial and strategic planning experience, along with a strong understanding of supply chains and associated supporting financial services. He has a substantial global business network, is a long-standing board member of the peak industry body PIPA, and sits on the advisory board of a major international supplier to the water, building and infrastructure sectors.
Anthony’s experience in bringing teams together to plan, execute and sustainably deliver innovative strategic and collaborative industry wide initiatives adds invaluable real world insight to RMI.
Mathew is an experienced senior corporate financial and strategy professional with over 20 years of experience across investment banking, commercial banking and management consulting.
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His experience includes senior positions with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and National Australia Bank with experience across multiple geographies, including 10 years based in Asia.
Mathew has extensive corporate finance experience working with major global companies across a wide range of sectors. This includes having led numerous M&A advisory and financing engagements for both listed and unlisted corporate clients. In addition, advising clients on corporate strategy, risk management and capital structure optimisation.
Mathew holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, and a Master of Applied Finance all from the University of Melbourne and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Robert has over 30 years extensive background in developing technical products and product strategy, as well as extensive medical device expertise of over 17 years.
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Robert has gained his medical device experience with multinational MedTech companies including: Medtronic, Given Imaging (a Medtronic company), Siemens and Philips. He also has over 15 years’ experience in consulting and managing internal teams and vendors. Robert is leading RMI’s delivery and development team and guides RMI on its product strategy and development plans.
Robert’s experience in delivering products to market includes launching over 30 products to market throughout his career, and delivering multimillion programs of up to $500 million in annual revenue. He combines technical and management background with solid digital, multidisciplinary, and agile delivery experience, and worked with global and world class teams in over 10 countries across US, Europe, Israel, Asia, and Australia.
Cindy Bray is an experienced executive leader with more than 20 years’ experience across strategy, communications, innovation, stakeholder engagement and commercial operations. Her career spans the manufacturing, infrastructure and industry sectors, combining strategic leadership with experience delivering complex initiatives across technical, commercial and stakeholder environments.
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Cindy brings extensive experience in business strategy, brand and communications, product development and bringing new products and initiatives to market. She has worked with government, industry, regulators and research organisations and held board and advisory positions across Australia and internationally.
Looking Ahead
The future of specialist diagnostic care is more connected, more accessible and designed around the needs of patients and sonographers.
RMI is working to make that future possible by enabling specialist expertise to reach more people, in more places.
Because specialist diagnostic expertise should never be limited by geography.