Briefly Noted

• At the 18th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Home Care (NAHC; Washington), being held in San Diego this week, Home Care University will honor four healthcare leaders by naming them Fellows of Hospice and Home Care. It recognizes people who have been actively involved in hospice and home care for at least 10 years, involved in activities of NAHC, and involved in making significant contributions to the field. The presentation will be made today honoring Emily Saylors Tripp, the group vice president of home care, hospice and purchasing at the VNA of Texas in Dallas; Karen Talbott, president and CEO of Visiting Nurse Service & Affiliates in Akron, OH; Elaine Stephens, president and CEO of Visiting Nurse Service of Greater Woonsocket in Lincoln, RI; and Paula Milone-Nuzzo, an associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Yale School of Nursing in New Haven, CT. Also at the NAHC meeting, HealthMagic Inc. (Columbia, SC) will introduce its web-based solutions for home care providers. CareCompass Connect! is a Web-based OASIS data entry system that also generates a Medicare 485 form. CareCompass is designed to prepare agencies for the prospective payment system and includes intake, integrated assessments, problem lists, care plans, visit notes, billing and payroll integration and reports. It will be available in the first quarter of 2000, the company said.