The National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) is a trade association founded in the Fall of 1989 by advocates of professional medical services to long term care facilities. NASL now represents the legislative and regulatory interests of over 100 companies providing ancillary services, therapy, products, medical supplies, diagnostic testing and information systems for the long term, post acute and homecare industries.
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	HCS is proud to be an Allied Member of ALTHA. ALTHA is the Washington -based association of Long-Term Acute-Care (LTAC) hospitals. ALTHA's member hospitals provide highly specialized care for critically ill patients with multiple, medically complex problems.
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Health Level Seven is an application protocol for electronic data exchange in healthcare environments. The HL7 protocol is a collection of standard formats which specify the implementation of interfaces between computer applications from different vendors. Membership in this organization allows HCS to participate in the highest level of the International Standards Organizations (ISO) communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) paving the way for unified definition of data to be exchanged, timing interchanges, and communication of certain errors to the application. HL7 supports such functions as security checks, identification of the participants, availability checks, negotiating exchange mechanisms, and structuring the data exchanges themselves.
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HCS is an associate business member in the AHCA which represents the long-term care community and provides information, education, and administrative tools to its business members.
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As a member, HCS is provided with information regarding chapter and national activities, with current and useful news of both national and local significance to healthcare financial professionals and as to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information.
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