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By admin February 20, 2017 GMF, Nutrition

In Response to Dr.Goldman

Thank you Dr. Brian Goldman for supporting my profession.  I went to Mcgill University and studied dietetics and human nutrition which included  4 levels of stage.  It takes 3 and half years to complete this program and when you graduate you become an expert in the field of nutrition care.  I will admit that I did not feel like an expert until I had accumulated a certain amount of professional experience.  Currently, I work at GMF Kildare.  If you want to know what a GMF is click here.  I also work at CLSC Benny Farm.

Dietitians help patients with such a wide variety of issues.  I help the bulk of my patients with chronic disease state management for such illnesses as diabetes, high blood pressure, sub-optimal cholesterol and of course weight management.  Sometimes I see seniors that appear malnourished.  This can be very serious and requires a skilled intervention to prevent further complications.  I have colleagues who specialize in pediatric nutrition and prenatal care and others who are experts in tube feeding on surgical units in acute care.  Another colleague is a home care specialist and provides direct nutrition care in patients own living environment.  Some dietitians are even food service managers who run the acute care, rehab and long term care kitchens; ensuring that patients receive appropriate meals and snacks.

The first time I meet a new patient I will do an initial evaluation.  This can take about an hour. I will ask many health related and social questions to fully understand the client’s lifestyle habits.  This information will help make me the right assessment and give the appropriate intervention for that client.  It’s important to understand that each nutrition care intervention is individualized and created just for that person. This is what I am trained to do and how I am able to help people.  It is just  like doctors who are trained to ask the right questions, make the proper diagnosis and provide the right treatment for each patient they see.

There are so many variables that make up a person’s medical and social history.  Each person’s experience is going to determine what type of nutrition care they will need.  It’s very important to get a sense of what the patient is willing to change. As a professional dietitian, I must be able to work with where the patient is at, on any given day. I need to ask, are they ready to make a big change like reducing simple sugars or are they willing to try something a bit easier like add a glass of water to their daily intake?  Sometimes it takes many nutrition care follow ups before a client is even willing to think about changing a behavior.

I provide information concerning the management, of a disease or condition, but it is the patient’s responsibility to use the information to promote change. The patient always has the right to make the choice that works for them and sometimes that means not following dietary advice.  Not everybody is ready to work on their diet and lifestyle habits. Either way, I provide motivation and can coach clients wherever they may be on the behavioral change continuum.

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By Michael Kalin February 16, 2017 Clinic News, Health Promotion, Promotion de la santé, Uncategorized

The truth about GMF’s

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“Created to improve access, Montreal clinics often turn away patients,” published in the Gazette on February 15, 2017, is a misleading and misrepresentative article. It makes false assumptions and reaches incorrect conclusions.
The article states that “there are 86 family medicine groups in Montreal that rely on government funding to stay open longer than private doctors’ offices.” The author contends that “fewer than half the clinics are actually open seven days a week.”
The reality is GMFs are neither super-clinics nor general walk-ins. They are grouped, private, family medicine practices that offer care to a defined, registered patient population. Emphasis is placed on assiduité, fidélisation and prise en charge. In other words, GMFs prioritize their own patients while super-clinics or GMF-reseau (known previously as cliniques-reseau) are designed primarily for patients who do not have a family doctor.
These distinctions are available at: http://www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/professionnels/statistiques-donnees-services-sante-services-sociaux/acces-premiere-ligne/ and http://sante.gouv.qc.ca/systeme-sante-en-bref/groupe-de-medecine-de-famille-gmf/.
GMFs do not all receive the same funding and are not expected to maintain the same number of operating hours or days. While larger GMFs are open 68 hours/week, smaller GMFs only need to be open 5 or 6 days/week.
Yes – GMF walk-in clinics generally extend appointments to non-registered patients whenever possible. “All” patients can come irrespective of age, gender or medical history. Clinics, doctors, nurses are all working to improve access and help patients in need. But the GMF is not a “general” walk-in clinic – and hasn’t been since their inception in the early 2000s.
At the end of the day, the article should have asked – “can patients obtain timely appointments with their own family doctor?” Bottom line – register with a family doctor.

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By Michael Kalin February 13, 2017 Uncategorized

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“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” John Naibitt

“We can just Google it!” writes Dr. Jalees Rehman of the University of Illinois at Chicago in Scientific America on August 2, 2012.  “Identifying the websites with the most accurate and relevant information are critical skills that are necessary for navigating our way in the digital information jungle, but unfortunately, these skills are rarely taught. In most cases, inaccurate or irrelevant information on the internet merely delays us for a few minutes until we do find the answer to what we are looking for. However, when it comes to medical information, inaccurate or irrelevant information could potentially have a major detrimental impact on our well-being.

I invite you visit the sites below (and at our newest website feature: Patient Resources –www.santekildare.ca/services/patient-resources/) which provide diverse, relevant and reliable medical information.  Some help calculate risk for cancer, osteoporosis and heart disease, while others prepare patients for appointments, review medications, discuss controversies in screening and limitations in treatments, and provide patients with easy-to-understand information about prevention and management of common illnesses.

With apologies to J.K.Rowling, “Understanding is the first step to healing.”

 

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CTFPHC

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) has been established by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to develop clinical practice guidelines that support primary care providers in delivering preventive health care.

Patient Engagement in Guideline Development: The CTFPHC involves members of the public in its guideline development process. Specifically, the CTFPHC uses feedback from the public to guide the search for evidence on the guideline topic and to develop knowledge translation tools to accompany the guidelines

http://canadiantaskforce.ca/tools-resources/videos/

http://canadiantaskforce.ca/general-public/general-information/

 

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Choosing Wisely Canada

Choosing Wisely Canada is a campaign to help physicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures, and to help physicians and patients make smart and effective choices to ensure high-quality care. Unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures do not add value to care. In fact, they take away from care by potentially exposing patients to harm, leading to more testing to investigate false positives and contributing to stress for patients. And of course unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures put increased strain on the resources of our health care system.

http://choosingwisely.ca/

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My CancerIQ

Designed by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), My CancerIQ is a website that helps you understand your risk for cancer and what you can do to help lower that risk.

A series of risk assessments estimate your risk of cancer compared with other Ontarians of the same sex age 40 and over. At the end of each assessment you’ll receive a personalized risk assessment and action plan with tips and resources based on your personal risk factors.

https://www.mycanceriq.ca/

 

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Lung Foundation Australia

Lung Foundation Australia Primary Care Respiratory Toolkit supports the promotion of lung health as well as the early diagnosis and best practice management of lung disease. Evidence shows that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-managed. The Primary Care Respiratory Toolkit has been developed to redress this.

The Lung Age Estimator has been developed to support clinicians to motivate current smokers to quit, by providing a graphic illustration of estimated lung age.

http://doctorwidget.com/alf/ignition/index.php/alf_pcrt#

 

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Medstopper

Medstopper is a tool to help clinicians and patients make decisions about reducing or stopping medications. By entering the list of medications a patient is receiving, Medstopper sequences the drugs from “more likely to stop” to “less likely to stop”, based on three key criteria: the potential of the drug to improve symptoms, its potential to reduce the risk of future illness and its likelihood of causing harm. Suggestions for how to taper the medication are also provided.

http://medstopper.com/

 

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Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Established by Health Canada in 2003, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) works with governments, health organizations, leaders, and healthcare providers to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality.

Shift to Safety offers tips and tools for talking to you healthcare team. Empower yourself with information to help you ask good questions, connect with the right people, and learn as much as you can to keep you or a family member safe while receiving healthcare.

http://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/en/toolsresources/questions-are-the-answer/pages/default.aspx

 

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Calorie Counter

How many calories should you eat?  One-size-fits all recommendation do not work – each plan needs to be customized to each individual. Science tells us that 1 pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories so, in theory, a daily calorie deficit of 500 should result in 1 pound per week fat loss. Regrettably, in reality things don’t quite work that efficiently.

http://www.bmimedical.ca/calculator.aspx

 

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CVD Calculator

This Cardiovascular disease (CVD) calculator from the Therapeutics Education Collaboration uses both Framingham and the new ASCVD formulas.  It displays benefit estimates for all treatments – diet, lifestyle and medications. The calculator promotes itself as the BEST tool for calculating cardiovascular risk.

http://chd.bestsciencemedicine.com/calc2.html

 

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Journal of the American Medical Association

Explore the latest patient information from The JAMA Network, including easy-to-understand information about prevention and management of common illnesses.

http://jamanetwork.com/collections/6258/for-patients

 

Calcium Calculator

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Osteoporosis Canada Calcium Calculator

 

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Fracture Risk Assessment

http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/tool.aspx?country=19

By Michael Kalin February 10, 2017 Health Promotion

Update on Measles

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Update on Measles
-No cases reported in Canada in 2017
-11 cases reported in Canada in 2016
-In January 2017, 23 people from 6 states (California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) were reported to have measles.
-In 2016, 70 people from 16 states were reported to have measles.
• The majority of people who got measles were unvaccinated.
• Measles is still common in many parts of the world including some countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.
• Travelers with measles continue to bring the disease into the U.S. and Canada
• Measles can spread when it reaches a community where groups of people are unvaccinated.
What is Measles?
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. It remains an important cause of death among young children globally, despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine.
How is it transmitted?
Measles is transmitted via droplets from the nose, mouth or throat of infected persons.
What are the symptoms?
Initial symptoms, which usually appear 10–12 days after infection, include high fever, a runny nose, bloodshot eyes, and tiny white spots on the inside of the mouth. Several days later, a rash develops, starting on the face and upper neck and gradually spreading downwards.
Can it be severe?
The most serious complications include blindness, encephalitis (an infection that causes brain swelling), severe diarrhea and related dehydration, and severe respiratory infections such as pneumonia.
Is it still common?
While global measles deaths have decreased by 75 percent worldwide in recent years — from 544,000 deaths in 2000 to 146,000 in 2013 — measles is still common in many developing countries, particularly in parts of Africa and Asia. More than 20 million people are affected by measles each year. The overwhelming majority (more than 95%) of measles deaths occur in countries with low per capita incomes and weak health infrastructures.
Can measles be prevented?
Yes. The measles vaccine has been in use since the 1960s. It is safe, effective and inexpensive. WHO (World Health Organization) recommends immunization for all susceptible children and adults for whom measles vaccination is not contraindicated.
What is the global plan?
Under the Global Vaccine Action Plan, measles and rubella are targeted for elimination in five WHO Regions by 2020. WHO is the lead technical agency responsible for coordination of immunization and surveillance activities supporting all countries to achieve this goal.

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  • The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) ― endorsed by the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 ― is a framework to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.
  • GVAP aims to strengthen routine immunization to meet vaccination coverage targets; accelerate control of vaccine-preventable diseases with polio eradication as the first milestone; introduce new and improved vaccines and spur research and development for the next generation of vaccines and technologies.

Recent Measles Outbreaks

  • 2015: The United States experienced a large, multi-state measles outbreak linked to an amusement park in California. The outbreak likely started from a traveler who became infected overseas with measles, then visited the amusement park while infectious. Analysis by CDC scientists linked the virus type to a large measles outbreak in the Philippines in 2014.
  • 2014: The U.S. experienced 23 measles outbreaks in 2014, including one large outbreak of 383 cases, occurring primarily among unvaccinated Amish communities in Ohio.
  • 2011: More than 30 countries in the WHO European Region reported an increase in measles, and France was experiencing a large outbreak.
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By Michael Kalin January 25, 2017 Health Promotion

Médecine de proximité

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“The goal of proximity medicine is to keep as many services as possible within people’s reach.”

Dr. Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, former President of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, presented a compelling vision for Family Medicine at the Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecture last September. Entitled “The perils and the promise of proximity,” Dr. Bealieu issues a sincere wake-up call to family doctors, to move “beyond our current understanding of patient-centered care into the realm of partnerships with patients, wherever they are in their lives or communities.”

 

“Medicine is coming up against a wall.”

Proximity medicine is not simply geographic access – it is a medical approach “that can take into consideration individuals in their entirety and in their complexity, support them in their journey, and place them at the heart of the health care system.” Dr. Beaulieu laments that “technological developments are distancing us from the knowledge, skills, and know-how we need to cope with the challenges facing us.”

The Four Challenges:
1. action on the social determinants of health;
2. timely access to care;
3. care transitions and service integration; and
4. overdiagnosis and overtreatment—our practice of maximally intrusive medicine.

1. Social determinants of health
“We are not all born equal”
Family physicians need to take specific actions aimed at social determinants and by adopting non-stigmatizing practices. This can be accomplished by applying for income supplements, advocating for change in our communities, supporting resources and fostering social participation. Most importantly, ensuring all services are accessible to all our patients, regardless of their sociodemographic characteristics.
2. Accessibility
“We have built fortified castles around our clinics”
Dr. Beaulieu notes that to many, “the concept of service quality referred primarily to whether practices conformed to guidelines rather than to comprehensiveness, timely access, or continuity of care.” To the contrary, timely access to care is not a luxury, but a necessity – or as she writes, “one of the pillars of the patient’s Medical Home.”
3. Care transitions
“The hospital is part of the community and needs to build bridges with services and professionals outside its walls… How do we persuade hospitals to be part of the proximity medicine community?”
“Fragmentation of care is a scourge, one of the primary causes of gaps in care and medical errors.” Care transitions, whether from home to hospital or hospital to home, need to be seamless.
4. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: “maximally disruptive medicine.”
“Being a patient has become a full-time job”
Dr. Beaulieu laments that over-testing and over-diagnosis have plunged medicine and society into “a vortex from which we cannot extract ourselves without a drastic change in culture.”
“We offer people increasingly complex treatment plans. We interfere with their work, their leisure, and their lives overall. “
The cure: parsimonious medicine not personalized medicine. Evidence-based approaches that propose interventions that offer real differences for patients. “We need a medicine that truly involves patients as full partners in their own diagnoses and care, which is what proximity medicine is all about. We need darn good clinicians.”  Medicine based on “sound clinical judgment…medicine that tolerates uncertainty.”

In the end, I agree with Dr. Josh Tepper, CEO and President of Health Quality Ontario:

 

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By Michael Kalin January 19, 2017 Clinic News

Learning from Effective Primary Care Teams

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Santé Kildare was selected to participate in the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine Quality Improvement “teaming” project in 2016.  High functioning primary care teams were chosen across Canada with the goal of developing a blueprint and action plan to guide primary care teams to function effectively. The ultimate outcome leading to improved health of populations, improved and patient and provider experiences and improved value.  Santé Kildare was the only clinic studied from Quebec.

Launched in late 2014, the Quality Improvement (QI) Program set out to answer the question: What makes primary care teams effective or high-functioning?

“The evolution of health care provision in the community is moving from a single primary care provider (usually a family physician) providing health care patient by patient in a reactive context, to an organizational one – a primary care team proactively meeting the needs of a defined population. Teaming – a verb – refers to the collective actions or processes associated with a primary health care team performing optimally”.

In April 2016, the environmental scan for the teaming project was completed with case studies of nominated, high-functioning primary care teams. The case studies, representing teams from Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, marked the last element of the scan that included a robust literature review and a series of expert interviews.

Last Fall, the Quality Improvement (QI) Program published themes that were identified as attributes of high-functioning teams.  They include:

  1. A practice environment where members of an interprofessional team work in close proximity (co-location)
  2. Effective use of electronic medical records (EMRs)
  3. A focus on patient experience
  4. An effective communication culture
  5. Leadership
  6. Right skill mix
  7. A combination of clarity and flexibility around roles
  8. Ensuring that all team members work to their full scope of practice
  9. Professional development
  10. Collaboration with external partners and agencies

It was pleasure for Santé Kildare to participate in this project.  The full report can be found here.

By Michael Kalin January 9, 2017 Promotion de la santé

Groupe de médecine de famille (GMF) et Super-cliniques (GMF-Réseau): Quelle est la différence?

Groupe de médecine de famille (GMF)
Un groupe de médecine de famille (GMF) est un regroupement de médecins de famille qui travaillent en étroite collaboration avec d’autres professionnels de la santé. Cette organisation du travail permet à la clientèle d’avoir plus facilement accès à des soins médicaux.
Chaque médecin s’occupe de ses propres patients, qui sont inscrits auprès de lui, mais tous les médecins membres du GMF ont accès à l’ensemble des dossiers médicaux. Ainsi, une personne qui se présente pour une consultation sans rendez-vous peut être vue par un autre médecin que le sien. Au besoin, elle peut aussi rencontrer une infirmière ou un autre professionnel de la santé du GMF pour différents suivis.
Ce travail en groupe permet :

• d’assurer un meilleur suivi de l’état de santé et du dossier médical des patients;
• d’améliorer la qualité des soins médicaux;
• d’améliorer l’accès aux soins médicaux.

Super-cliniques (GMF-Réseau)
Une super-clinique (GMF-Réseau) est un GMF avec une offre de service de première ligne accrue pour les besoins semi-urgents et les besoins urgents simples.
En plus des services offerts dans les GMF, les super-cliniques doivent :
• offrir des consultations aux patients n’ayant pas de médecin de famille ou étant inscrits dans un autre GMF;
• être ouvertes 7 jours sur 7 et 12 heures par jour;
• permettre la prise d’un rendez-vous le jour même, jusqu’à 3 heures avant la fermeture;
• donner accès à un centre de prélèvements public;
• donner accès à un laboratoire d’imagerie médicale;
• faciliter l’accès aux services spécialisés.
Les services disponibles dans les super-cliniques permettent aux usagers qui ont une condition non prioritaire d’éviter de se présenter à l’urgence d’un centre hospitalier et d’y subir une attente prolongée. Il s’agit de services accessibles rapidement pour les besoins de première ligne.
http://sante.gouv.qc.ca/systeme-sante-en-bref/groupe-de-medecine-de-famille-gmf/

By Michael Kalin December 30, 2016 Uncategorized

ZIKA – 10 things you should know:

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1. Pregnant women and those planning a pregnancy should avoid travel to countries or areas in the United States (including South Florida and Texas) with reported mosquito-borne Zika virus.

2. All travellers should protect themselves from mosquito bites. Zika virus infection is caused by a virus which is primarily spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.

3. It can be transmitted from an infected pregnant woman to her developing fetus

4. Zika virus can be sexually transmitted, and the virus can persist for an extended period of time in the semen of infected males. Cases of sexual transmission from an infected male to his partner have been reported. Only one case of sexual transmission has been reported from an infected female to her partner.

5. Symptoms of Zika virus can include fever, headache, conjunctivitis (pink eye) and skin rash, along with joint and muscle pain. The illness is typically mild and lasts only a few days and the majority of those infected do not have symptoms.

6. Experts agree that Zika virus infection causes microcephaly (abnormally small head) in a developing fetus during pregnancy and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (a neurological disorder).

7. Zika virus has been reported in Canada in returned travellers from countries with ongoing Zika virus outbreaks.

8. For women planning a pregnancy, it is strongly recommended that you wait at least 2 months before trying to conceive if you just returned from a country with reported mosquito-borne Zika virus.

9. For male travelers, it is strongly recommended that you wait at least 6 months before trying to conceive if you just returned from a country with reported mosquito-borne Zika virus. If your partner is pregnant, it is strongly recommended that men consider using condoms or avoid having sex for the duration of the pregnancy.

10. It is strongly recommended that men consider using condoms or avoid having sex with any partner for 6 months if you just returned from a country with reported mosquito-borne Zika virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/zika/
https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/health-safety/travel-health-notices/152

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By Elizabeth Jack June 15, 2016 Uncategorized

Le Quinoa, option santé à essayer

Plante herbacée dans la famille des betteraves et des épinards, le quinoa
est riche en fer et en protéines, sans gluten et faible en matières grasses. Essayez-le dans vos salades comme choix santé pour relever vos repas pique-niques cet été!
Voici quelques recettes pour vous inspirer!

http://recettes-de-chefs.ca/genevieve-filion/salade-de-quinoa/

http://www.recettes.qc.ca/recette/salade-de-quinoa-avec-amandes-feta-et-legumes-d-ete-164691

https://www.ricardocuisine.com/recettes/6030-salade-de-quinoa-de-ricotta-d-epinards-et-d-oignons-rouges

http://www.troisfoisparjour.com/fr/web/trois-fois-par-jour/recettes/lunchs-salades/salade-de-quinoa-poulet-pois-chiches-brocoli-et-sauce-au-cari

By Michael Kalin June 14, 2016 Fun Facts

The Next Frontier

With Grand Prix behind us, there is lots to look forward to in Montreal this summer. In honor of the upcoming Comiccon convention from July 08 to 10, 2016, it’s time to look forward to some exceptional .medical innovations on the not-so-distant horizon.

Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize moving forward

Winner of $10 million contest expected to be named in early 2017

By Mike Freeman | May 26, 2016 |

Tatiana Rypinski, a Johns Hopkins student, heads Team Aezon, which is one of seven contestants remaining in the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize competition.

Now in its fifth year, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize competition — which aims to create a portable medical device akin to the fictional tricorder of Star Trek fame — is moving toward naming a winner in early 2017.

The ambitious milestones for teams trying to develop the tricorder have been eased a bit. Instead of being capable of diagnosing 16 conditions without the help of a physician as originally proposed, the tricorders now must diagnose 13 ailments.

And the number of remaining teams has dropped from 10 to seven. One team dropped out and two merged.

Now teams are refining and testing their tricorders in preparation for a preliminary evaluation slated at UC San Diego late this summer.

“What we are attempting to do is require teams to demonstrate to us a certain level of performance on their devices so that we can qualify them to come back at UCSD and enter the final phase,” said Grant Campany, senior director of the Tricorder XPrize.

The final evaluations — including tests with real patients and doctors — are expected to begin in September and continue into early next year. San Diegans who wish to volunteer can email xprize-ctri@ucsd.edu or call (858) 230-4339.

When it officially kicked off in early 2012, the Tricorder XPrize expected to name a winner early this year. But building a hand-held medical device that can continuously read five vital signs, diagnose conditions ranging from pneumonia to diabetes to urinary tract infection and still be easy to use for the layman has proven difficult.

“As with most XPrizes, we set the bar relatively high,” said Campany. “We like to say it is audacious yet achievable. We are trying to create a high hurdle because we want to see breakthroughs occur.”

UC San Diego built a regulatory/approval framework to pave the way for consumer testing of these experimental tricorders. That framework has been used by teams to conduct initial tests in their hometowns in preparation for this summer’s preliminary cut.

Team Final Frontier, for example, includes emergency room physician Basil Harris, who is getting feedback on the team’s device with patients in Pennsylvania, said Campany.

Team DMI of Boston, headed by physician Eugene Chan, has posters up at public transit stations to recruit volunteers, he added.

“I think we are all going to be pleasantly surprised at the improvements that these teams have made in their operating systems and how these devices operate without the interaction of a health care provider,” he said.

The Tricorder XPrize aims to push wireless medical technology into the mainstream. San Diego-based Qualcomm pledged the prize money. The company has long viewed mobile technology as key to cutting health care costs and improving results.

“When you look at the developing world, which has a shortage of doctors, how do you allow technology to step in and extend the reach of health care providers through these types of devices?” said Campany. “That is really what this is all about.”

In addition to Final Frontier and DMI, others teams are: Aezon, which is made up of undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins; CloudDX of Canada; Danvantri of India; Dynamical Biomarkers Group of Taiwan; and Scanadu/Intelesens from the U.S.