Biography:

JONATHAN P. TOMES ,J.D. is a healthcare attorney, consultant, educator, and expert witness. He is a leading expert on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, particularly its Security and Privacy Rules. He also has litigated medical malpractice cases, defended doctors in revocation of licensure and credentialing proceedings, reviewed medical devices, and taught hospital law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Jon has published more than 60 books and a like number of articles, most of which focus on healthcare compliance issues, including The Compliance Guide to HIPAA and the DHHS Regulations and its accompanying HIPAA Documents Resource Center CD of sample policies, procedures, and contracts, both now in their 6th edition).

He has also written Electronic Health Records: A Practical Compliance Guide, now in its 3rd edition, Medical Records Retention Guide, now in its 4th edition, How to Handle HIPAA Breaches, Complaints, and Investigations: Everything You Need to Know, Have You Heard about HIPAA? A Practical HIPAA Compliance Guide for Audiologists and Speech Pathologists, Mental and Behavioral Health and HIPAA: An Uneasy Alliance, The Complete HIPAA Policies and Procedures Guide with accompanying HIPAA Compliance Sample Policies and Procedures CD, and most recently Your Happy HIAA Book, among more than 50 other books. His articles have appeared in Health Data Management, Medical Claims Management, Credit Card Management, Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Journal of Health Care Finance, ACCA Docket, and Journal of AHIMA, among others. Jon is a skilled attorney, having litigated hundreds of cases, including medical malpractice, Public Health Service disciplinary actions, Merit Systems Protection Board cases, physician disciplinary matters, Military Claims Act and Federal Tort Claims Act cases, and criminal cases. He has presented programs for AHIMA, Faulkner & Gray, HFMA, the American Bar Association, the American Society of Association Executives, the Business Network, state American Health Information Management Association chapters, Cross Country Education, and Lorman Business Centers. He has appeared on The Nancy Grace Show, CNN, CNNC, The Dan Abrams Show, and A & E’s American Justice, among others.

Jon Tomes is also President of EMR Legal, a consulting firm that provides consulting services on HIPAA compliance and other issues regarding health information. Jon is also President and Publisher of Veterans Press, Inc., which publishes HIPAA compliance products. He has consulted for and or trained or both, more than 1,000 HIPAA compliance clients, including the Alabama Department of Medical Information; Wayne County (Detroit), MI; Genzyme, Inc.; Invisalign, Inc.; the American Health Information Management Association, and major hospitals, long-term care facilities, university health services, business associates, and physician practices from 100 physician networks to one clinician offices.  He is also a skilled litigator, having handled criminal defence, medical malpractice, hospital and nursing home cases, among others.