Infoway Led Digital Health Landscape Surveys

The Regional Cancer Care Program in Northwestern Ontario implemented a comprehensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to integrate 13 satellite clinics across the region and improve the quality of information and timely access to the information contained with the patients' records. This report found an overall positive staff satisfaction with the EMR and patient access to symptom management referrals, thus increasing compliance to quality practice standards. The report also highlights change management challenges and requirements to support benefits realization objectives. This report is available in English only.

This report highlights the successful outcomes of North York General Hospital’s (NYGH) Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) toolkit. The report found the increasing participation of CPOE Toolkit users  provides evidence that its importance is being realized and will continue to grow as more organizations embark on CPOE implementations.

This survey explored Canadian community pharmacists' access to and usage of digital health tools. It was a joint collaboration between the Canadian Pharmacists Association and Canada Health Infoway.

Learn about the results of the 2016 National Survey of Community-Based Pharmacists: Use of Digital Health Technology in Practice, including the positive impact that the use of digital health is having on Canadian pharmacists’ changing practice needs and on patient safety and the delivery of care. The survey was done by Canada health Infoway and the Canadian Pharmacists Association.

On behalf of Infoway and the Canadian Pharmacists Association, Environics Research conducted the fourth iteration of a survey of community-based pharmacists in 2022. The main objective of the survey is to provide an assessment of community pharmacists’ perspectives around current and future use and impact of electronic prescribing and digital health technologies in practice.

This document provides the results of the three digital health related questions from the 2017 CMA Workforce Survey.

Physicians’ Use of Digital Health and Information Technologies in Practice The 2018 Canadian Physician Survey (CPS) focused on the use of digital health technologies in practice by primary care (family physicians/general practitioners) and specialist physicians. Physicians across Canada were recruited to participate between January and March 2018 via a multi-method direct-to-physician fax invitation and national communications campaign. The survey instrument and all promotion and recruitment communication were available in French and English

The survey, conducted by Infoway and the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), aims to better understand the use of digital health and information technology among physicians in Canada.

The Connecting Patients for Better Health 2018 report provides the latest availability, use and citizen interest in accessing their health information online as well as digitally enabled health services (e-services). The results are from four public opinion surveys administered between February and March 2014 – 2018, and are nationally representative of Canadians by age, province/territory and gender.

Infoway has been tracking specific aspects of digital health awareness, utilization and perceptions among Canadians annually since 2010 to better understand the Canadian digital health landscape. This report provides highlighted results from the 2019 Survey of Canadians with selected trending statistics from the 2018 Survey. The 2018 and 2019 Surveys of Canadians are based on a variety of specific system utilization and attitudinal tracking metrics used in previous years as well as new areas of inquiry. The Surveys include core tracking questions as well as new questions that will provide actionable insights to help advance the digital health landscape in Canada.

In partnership with Leger, Canada Health Infoway commissioned a web survey of more than 12,000 Canadians over the age of 16 during the summer of 2021 to update our understanding of the Canadian digital health landscape. This report highlights Canadians’ experiences with digital and virtual care services both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Infoway conducts the annual Canadian Digital Health Survey to gain insights into Canadians’ attitudes and perceptions about digital health. The 2022 Canadian Digital Health Survey heard from more than 12,000 Canadians across all provinces and territories.

This survey is the first quantitative survey of Canadian nurses to explore their access to and use of digital health in nursing practice. It was a joint collaboration between the Canadian Nurses Association and Canada Health Infoway.

The results deck highlights the latest quantitative survey of Canadian nurses’ access to and use of digital health in practice. It was a joint collaboration between the Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Nursing Informatics Association and Canada Health Infoway.

The results deck highlights the latest quantitative survey of Canadian nurses’ access to and use of digital health in nursing practice. It was a joint collaboration between the Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Nursing Informatics Association and Canada Health Infoway.

This report discusses the results of a research project that consisted of an online Pan-Canadian survey and in-person focus groups to better understand adult and adolescent perceptions on rights of access to health information, willingness to share this access and mechanisms to enable electronic access. Also see:  Pandora’s Box? Adolescent Access to Digital Health Records Research Summary Who has Access to What? Adolescent Access to Personal Health Information Pandora’s Box is Open: Adolescent Access to Electronic Personal Health Information

Results of an electronic survey of radiologists and referring physicians on the use and benefits of diagnostic imaging repositories.

Infoway has been tracking attitudes, expectations and experiences in digital health privacy in Canada every five years since 2007. Find out about Canadians’ perspectives on digital health and privacy in 2022.

In partnership with Canada Health Infoway, Leger conducted this web survey with 6,002 Canadians over the age of 16 to better understand the Canadian digital health landscape.

Infoway conducts the annual Canadian Digital Health Survey to gain insights into Canadians’ attitudes and perceptions about digital health. The 2023 Canadian Digital Health Survey heard from more than 10,000 Canadians across all provinces and territories.

The results deck highlights the latest quantitative survey of Canadian nurses’ access to and use of digital health in practice. It was a joint collaboration between the Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Nursing Informatics Association and Canada Health Infoway.   View the detailed results and visualizations here.

The survey, conducted by Infoway and the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), aims to better understand the use of digital health and information technology among physicians in Canada.   View the detailed results and visualizations here.

One of the key components of Canada Health Infoway’s Shared Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap focuses on enabling access to health information for all Canadians. However, inequalities in access due to social determinants of health may still exist. The Digital Health Equity (DHE) analysis aims to investigate these access disparities. It explores variations in electronic access to personal health information (PHI) across various sociodemographic, socioeconomic, health-related, and digital factors. This analysis uses data from the 2023 Canadian Digital Health Survey (CDHS), which was commissioned by Canada Health Infoway.

Infoway conducted a first of its kind pan-Canadian scan to establish a baseline of progress and opportunities in areas such as pan-Canadian health data standards and systems, as well as patient summary, eReferral, and eConsult.

Infoway conducts the annual Canadian Digital Health Survey to gain insights into Canadians’ attitudes and perceptions about digital health. The 2024 Canadian Digital Health Survey heard from more than 12,000 Canadians across all provinces and territories.

The 2024 Digital Health Equity (DHE) analysis aims to investigate disparities in electronic access to personal health information (PHI) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) across various sociodemographic, socioeconomic, health-related, and digital equity factors. This analysis uses data from the 2024 Canadian Digital Health Survey (CDHS), which was commissioned and released by Canada Health Infoway earlier this year.