📡 Telehealth-Readiness Index

One 0–100 county score for a question every health system is asking and almost nobody measures: can this community actually use telehealth? It fuses broadband adoption, device access, and measured connection speed into a single, rankable number — the connectivity-as-health metric FFH owns.
PHIT Lens: Social + Environmental · Measure: Digital Access
Why this is different from a broadband map. Availability tells you the wire reaches the house. Readiness tells you whether the household can hold a video visit — broadband subscription, a device to use it on, and real-world speed good enough for telehealth. A county can be "covered" and still be unready. This index surfaces exactly those gaps, county by county.
⚠️ SAMPLE SPEED DATA in use for this state — measured M-Lab/Ookla values are placeholders until county/<ST>.json is generated. Adoption figures below are LIVE from Census ACS.
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How the score is built — fully transparent

When measured speed is available: TRI = 0.45·broadband% + 0.25·device% + 0.30·speedScore. When it isn't yet, the two adoption components are re-weighted to sum to 1 (0.64·broadband% + 0.36·device%) so the score is always on the same 0–100 scale. speedScore = measured download Mbps capped at 100 (100 Mbps ⇒ 100), averaging M-Lab and Ookla when both are present. The % age 65+ column is shown as need context — the population most dependent on telehealth — not as a penalty.
≥ 80 Strong 60–79 Moderate 40–59 At Risk < 40 Critical Gap
Coach Lucy
Coach LucyThis is the panel that turns "we should do telehealth outreach" into "start with these five counties." When a Director sees a Critical-Gap county that also has a high 65+ share, that's not a statistic — that's a community that needs a phone-and-SMS care pathway, not another video portal. The index tells you where to point the help.