Take 01. Health belongs to consumers; product management 10 year trend; network effects of your life
Hi 👋
Welcome to the first edition of Double Take - a multi-interest newsletter sharing curated reads about product management, health technology, macro technology trends, and interesting reads about things like consumer culture. We do our best work when we’re inspired and informed. I hope these reads will inspire new perspectives and make you do a Double Take on status quo ideas.
- Christine
Health
One Medical, a consumer-centric, membership based primary care provider, soared during its IPO. Its goal is to make primary care more accessible and affordable for consumers, use its technology stack to make providers’ work more efficient, and cut 10% of U.S. healthcare spending.
Practice Fusion, a EHR vendor purchased by Allscripts in 2018 for $100M, is ordered to pay $145M for receiving kickbacks of nearly $1M from major opioid company for creating clinical decision alert that encourages doctors to prescribe more opioids.
ONC released a 5-year federal health IT roadmap to make patients' health data accessible through smartphone apps and APIs. Epic’s CEO is urging its hospital customers to oppose these rules.
Here’re the recurring themes healthcare enterprise leaders were talking about at JPM 2020 healthcare conference. Hear more about Rock Health’s podcast on the landscape of digital health companies in 2020.
Product
It’s iPad’s 10th anniversary. Revisit Stephen Fry’s review of the first iPad, which was in his opinion “soul-scorchingly beautiful”. Today, it’s a $21 billion dollar business, and it’ll likely never fail.
Google trends for “Product Management” reached an all-time high. The primary responsibility of a PM is to constantly maintain a pulse of the future. Here are some global trends in the future of product management in the 2020’s.
What exactly is Product Market Fit, how do you know you’ve got it? Save this comprehensive collection of markers and definitions by Lenny.
Gems
Benedict Evans’ annual presentation on the macro and strategic trends of the tech industry - one of the best big-picture summaries of tech trends.
James Currier’s masterpiece about how the unseen forces of network effect drive the opportunities and events that shape your life.
This great Super Bowl ads recap highlights how great advertising briefs use a simple format to influence people’s mindset or behavior. (Found on 2pml’s newsletter).
1-on-1 career development template made on Coda by Jenny, design lead for Square
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