Jonathan P. Tomes
Jonathan P. Tomes is a health care attorney practicing in the greater Kansas City area as a partner in the law firm of Tomes & Dvorak, Chartered. Jon is a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal, 5th Circuit, 7th Circuit, 8th Circuit, and 10th Circuits, and Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, including their respective federal courts. Jon has also served as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and military judge in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Before becoming a military lawyer, Jon learned about security systems while serving in the Military Intelligence branch of the Army. Jon has also defended malpractice cases for the U.S. Army and prosecuted plaintiffs’ malpractice cases since his retirement from the Army. More recently, he has also served as an expert witness in litigation involving health information compliance issues in Illinois and Colorado. Jon is also President of EMR Legal, Inc., a national HIPAA consulting firm, and is uniquely qualified to teach how to comply with HIPAA, the regulations implementing it, and the changes that the new HITECH Act requires regarding HIPAA. Jon has provided HIPAA compliance consulting for federal, state, and county governments, hospitals, long-term-care facilities, hospices, and various types of physician practices, as well as for business associates, such as transcription services, medical marketing companies, and electronic storage companies. He has also served as an Associate Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and has been presenting HIPAA compliance seminars around the country for more than a decade. Jon has written more than 50 books and dozens of professional articles on health care information law and HIPAA and HITECH Act compliance, among others. Many of his books are available on Amazon, and all of his HIPAA compliance books and other resources are available from his publishing house, Veterans Press, Inc., at www.veteranspress.com. His novels and short stories are available on Amazon Kindle. See the attached flyer for a special discount on his HIPAA Compliance Library for attendees of this seminar. Jon is available at 913-385-7990, ext. 306, or at [email protected]. To stay current on the latest HIPAA issues, subscribe to Jon’s free HIPAA & HITECH Act Blog at http://www.veteranspress.com/category/hipaa-hitech-blog