Matthew Holt is best known as the founder (and now occasional) author of The Health Care Blog, which is one of the best read blogs in health care. His other day job is as the Co-Founder (with Indu Subaiya) of the Health2.0 Conference, and I'm also a Founding Principal of the associated consulting firm Health 2.0 Advisors

   Matthew sees his role as supporting those in the industry trying to look to the near horizon or to those outside health care who want to find out more about how $1 in every $7 gets spent. In more than 13 years in health care as a researcher, generalist forecaster, and strategist, he has worked for renowned forecasting and survey research organizations, conducted several ground-breaking in-depth studies about many aspects of health care, and delivered keynote addresses.

   Many companies from every part of the health care industry have used his studies to understand their environment, his forecasts to set their strategy, and advice to inform their decisions.

   Matthew’s last role was as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at i-Beacon, a data analysis and Internet tools provider, which helped healthcare companies better understand consumers. Before joining i-Beacon, he was at Harris Interactive, the leading healthcare survey research company. And back before World War II (or more accurately, prior to 1998) he was at Institute for the Future, the leading forecasting think tank, where he ran the healthcare information technology practice.

Topics:

1) Healthcare IT/E-healthcare

2) Pharmaceuticals and Their Marketing

3) Care Delivery Organizations and Physician Behavior

4) Consumer Impact on Healthcare

5) Healthcare Policy & Regulation