2024 National Survey of Canadian Physicians

Understanding the use of digital health and information technologies by Canadian physicians in practice

About the Survey

The 2024 National Survey of Canadian Physicians, led in partnership by Canada Health Infoway (CHI) and Canadian Medical Association (CMA), and conducted by Leger, aims to explore and track physicians’ perspectives on the use and impact of digital health information technologies in practice.

Please click here to access the full survey results report.

Suggested citation: Canada Health Infoway (2024). Infoway Insights: 2024 National Survey of Canadian Physicians. https://insights.infoway-inforoute.ca/2024-national-physician-survey

Survey Topics

The overall objective of this study is to explore physicians’ perspectives on their use and impact of digital health information technologies in practice. The survey is also aimed at understanding and identifying trends that will build on findings from previous 2021 survey results.
  • Physician Practice in Digital Environment
    This section offers insights into the adoption of digital health technologies in physician practice. It highlights the functionalities of these technologies that support patient care in their primary practice setting.
  • Connected Care and Clinical Interoperability
    Focusing on communication and coordination in clinical care, this section delves into electronic interactions between physicians and other health care providers outside of their primary practice setting. It explores physicians’ ability to electronically exchange patient information with other providers outside their practice system and the time they spent searching for patient data.
  • Physician Burnout and Administrative Burden
    This section delves into the administrative burden experienced by Canadian physicians. It includes self-assessment of burnout, time spent on electronic medial records (EMR) after home, and their perceptions of this additional workload.
  • Patient Engagement and Privacy
    This section yields insights into how physicians engage with their patients through the collection of patient feedback related to experience, preference, education and health literacy. It also presents physicians’ perceptions of patient data privacy and security.
  • AI-powered Technologies in Physician Practice
    This section provides an overview of the current integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in physician practice in Canada. It also explores physicians’ perceptions of how AI can support and enhance healthcare delivery.
  • Barriers and Challenges to Digital Health Technologies
    This section highlights the administrative, technological, organizational/institutional, and policy-related barriers that hinder the full realization of benefits from digital health technologies for physicians.
  • Respondent Profile
    Respondent Profile includes age, gender, geography and other variables describing the study sample.

Data Tables

Access banner tables with breakdowns for key demographic and health utilization attributes for each question on this and previous years’ surveys.

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