Matthew Holt

Matthew Holt is best known as the founder of The HealthCare Blog and (with Indu Subaiya) the Health 2.0 conferences, he now splits his time between them, Catalyst @ Health 2.0 (not owned by HIMSS), and the SMACK.health Advisory service for health tech startups,

During his career he has spent nearly 30 years in healthcare and health care IT as a generalist forecaster and strategist, having worked for renowned forecasting (IFTF) and polling (Harris) organizations, conducted several groundbreaking in-depth studies about many aspects of healthcare and delivered several keynote addresses all over the world. He knows a few people too. Holt is also on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine

Holt is best known as the founder of The HealthCare Blog and (with Indu Subaiya) the Health 2.0 conferences, he now splits his time between them, Catalyst @ Health 2.0 (not owned by HIMSS), and the SMACK.health Advisory service for health tech startups,

Health 2.0 is the leading conference series showcasing frontier technologies in health care. In April 2017 HIMSS bought the conference side of Health 2.0 which he continues to work on.

The Catalyst @ Health 2.0 division (not part of HIMSS) runs challenges, code-a-thons, innovation programs, and market intelligence, and owns the SourceDB which has more health tech companies in it than you can imagine!

The HealthCare Blog has been a leading source of opinion, news and interviews about health and health technology since 2003. It also features his short but sweet "Heath in 2 point 00" videos with Jessica DaMassa.

And at SMACK.health he advises over 25 startups navigating the healthcare world.

During his career he has spent nearly 30 years in healthcare and health care IT as a generalist forecaster and strategist, having worked for renowned forecasting (IFTF) and polling (Harris) organizations, conducted several groundbreaking in-depth studies about many aspects of healthcare and delivered several keynote addresses all over the world. He knows a few people too. Holt is also on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine.