Jim St. Clair

Prior to the Linux Foundation, Jim was the first Chief Trust Officer for Lumedic, supporting the first internationally available patient-centric identity and data exchange platform. Jim led the development of the Lumedic Exchange and harmonization of W3C verifiable credential data standards across healthcare and identity use cases. Jim worked closely to identify opportunities to leverage new developments in data standards and contribute technical advancements back to HL7, ISO, and IEEE standards development. Jim is also active in several ONC-related consent initiatives and SDOH consortia.

Jim is a 2019 and 2020 FedHealth IT 100 winner and has worked with large and small companies over the last 20 years focusing on Agile development and project management, cyber security and healthcare information technology for federal, state, and private sector organizations.

Additionally, Jim was the Senior Director for Interoperability at HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

Jim is a veteran and former naval officer, having served in both active and reserve capacity