--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 4 description: Patient-reported data, the improvement revolution, urban tech incubators, ‘sister city’ collaboration, and success beyond graduation. canonical: https://time.com/3556189/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-4/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-04T17:01:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:43:23.236Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Learn about: Patient-reported data, the improvement revolution, urban tech incubators, ‘sister city’ collaboration, and more. og:url: https://time.com/3556189/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-4/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Learn about: Patient-reported data, the improvement revolution, urban tech incubators, ‘sister city’ collaboration, and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 4 > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 4, 2014 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 4, 2014 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Peer-to-peer sharing of experiences could transform health care.**](http://www.iodine.com/blog/why-sharing-is-the-future-of-healthcare/) By Susannah Fox in Iodine **2\.** [**A technological and analytical arms race is producing the best athletes in history. Can those advances be applied to education?**](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/better-time) By James Surowiecki in the New Yorker **3\.** [**In South Bronx, startups are ‘onshoring’ technology jobs and trying to spark a revolution.**](http://www.wired.com/2014/11/urban-onshoring/) By Issie Lapowsky in Wired **4\.** [**‘Sister City’ relationships foster cross-border collaboration and spur economic development.**](http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/sister-city-partnership-cities-business-economic-development) By Nehemiah Rolle in Next City **5\.** [**Colleges and universities should focus on student success beyond graduation.**](https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/11/03/essay-duties-colleges-after-graduation-first-generation-students) By Karen Gross and Ivan Figueroa at Inside Higher Ed  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3556189/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3556189/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-4/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 4","datePublished":"2014-11-04T17:01:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:43:23.236Z","description":"Patient-reported data, the improvement revolution, urban tech incubators, ‘sister city’ collaboration, and success beyond graduation.","url":"https://time.com/3556189/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-4/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Sports topic","Education","College","Technology","NFL","Data","World","Doctor","Software","health","IT","NBA","graduation","teaching"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3556189/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-4/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 4"}}]}] ```