Brenda Tipper

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

#zurich and I just heard another, not quite as loud

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

RT @Health_Affairs: Cesarean Rates: Shifting The Focus From Increases To Variability In Use. Variation matters! http://t.co/oohjUtowZK

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

Until I saw this I never thought I would really retire. Now I will have to rethink. Performance reporting gone crazy? http://t.co/o9qVB4ZyTL

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

Math-education ranking from OECD. Two perspectives. Canada http://t.co/posubCvmI1. US http://t.co/1pZaK98Bfw. Neither good.

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

YAR (yet another ranking) of country health systems - this one by the economist intelligence unit for GE. Why? http://bit.ly/9Jmexc

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

Setting you own values and getting personalized rankings. This is good. All rankings should be "individualizable" http://bit.ly/achsOk

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

The problem with ranking cities or health systems: What aspects are most important? And how do we value them? http://bit.ly/cYEPk7

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

And tweeting activity (especially mine) would be very bursty too (with long, long, long, periods of inactivity). http://bit.ly/aK6kNp

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

Putting olympic medal count performance into perspective -http://bit.ly/cpMfNl. "But we're different!" That's what they all say.

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

On third thought - Prioritizing is about making choices - like how to boil a 120 page report into a 5-page summary or 1-page key messages.

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

On second thought, prioritizing is all about figuring out what is a small fire and what is a potential conflagration.

[Brenda Tipper @spwin]

Prioritizing often means turning a blind eye to a series of small fires http://bit.ly/9dKzYx