Jeff Tumbleson

Jeff Tumbleson has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare market. Prior to joining OIA, Jeff owned and operated an IT consulting company. His company provided a broad spectrum of information technology related services including; system integration, application development, and network design. He tailored the firm’s solutions to include support for the many IT related concerns surrounding HIPAA and other governmental regulations.

Prior to running his own business, Jeff was Vice President of Technology Solutions and CIO for Spheris, a health information management company. While with Spheris, he was instrumental in directing the company’s information technology division. Spheris (formerly Total eMed) revolutionized the industry by leveraging the internet as a means for delivering healthcare information to physicians in the acute-care market. The company’s solutions included applications for the web as well as popular handheld devices.

Prior to his tenure with Spheris, Jeff served as National Director of Support for MedQuist, the nation’s largest medical transcription company. Jeff headed the department responsible for supporting the company’s more than 350 customers and 3,500 remote medical transcriptionists. Jeff received his B.A. and a B.S. from the University of Kansas.