LinkWYOMING

LinkWYOMING Health Information Technology

Background

LinkWYOMING (www.linkwyoming.org) is a statewide initiative funded through a National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration grant that started in November 2009. LinkWYOMING has created a Health Care Survey to assess the usage of the Internet by Wyoming's Health Care Organizations. This survey is part of an outreach module focused on Wyoming's Health Care Organizations titled: Health Information Technology. This module is designed to enhance awareness about broadband opportunities for Health Care Organizations and to assess broadband needs.  Click Here to learn more about this training module.

Purpose of the Health Care Survey

One of the purposes of this survey is to collect and map locations where unmet demand exists for broadband. The data from this survey will be anonymized and shared with the LinkWYOMING Regional Planning Teams and the Statewide Broadband Coordinator to identify and address broadband gaps in your region.

Unless permission is granted through the questions described below, data collected by this survey will not be:

• mapped
• used for outreach, nor
• shared with Broadband Service providers.

Privacy Policy

As part of this survey, you have the option to choose whether or not you would like to be contacted about broadband related activities in your area. The LinkWYOMING Regional Planning Teams are made up of multi-sector stakeholders working together to improve access and use of broadband in your region. They host meetings and direct interested stakeholders to resources and efforts that can improve broadband access and use of it, such as through training opportunities and partnerships. Users submitting data on this survey can choose whether or not to be contacted about their efforts. You also have the option to be contacted by broadband service providers. Some new and existing broadband providers will be working in partnership with teams to improve broadband access in the region.

Some fields and information on the demand survey can be mapped visually to show broadband demand clusters. You have the option of choosing whether to have your data mapped at the beginning of the survey. Users submitting data on this survey can choose NOT to have their location mapped. If you choose “yes”, the following fields will be mapped:

• Your geo-coded address (a longitude/latitude identifier). To map a location, the street address of the location is geo-coded and used to position markers on a publicly viewable map. Exact address will not appear.
• Type of work activities of the organization
• Whether the organization has an Internet connection
• Type of Internet connection
• Upload and download speed of Internet connection
• Whether or not your Internet connection is adequate

 Mapable information is noted as follows:

This field will appear on the Demand Map.

About the Demand Map 

The demand map shows where community anchor institutions (CAI) exist, which are organizations such as schools, hospitals, and government sites that are large users of broadband. The CAIs will appear on the demand map along with residential, business, healthcare and other organizations that fill out the demand survey and agree to share their information about broadband needs on the map. The demand map is important because it shows clusters of broadband demand, and this data can be leveraged to attract new broadband service to an area.
Below is a sample demand map so that you can see how the data is displayed.

To take the survey, click the link below.
The survey has four pages and will take about 10 minutes to complete.
At anytime during the survey you can go back and change your responses.

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