The success of a health information technology (HIT) project is dependent on the acceptance and participation of clinical healthcare providers throughout and after the lifecycle of the implementation. HIT provides healthcare organizations with several benefits, which signifies the importance of adoption. Despite the benefits, provider resistance commonly makes an HIT implementation a struggle. Lack of support for HIT from clinicians is problematic, and can hinder adoption as well as continued use. It is very important for a healthcare organization to achieve appropriate acceptance. There are several measures that an organization can take in effort of maximizing the chance of gaining provider acceptance and participation throughout and after the implementation process. The development of or the adoption of a solution is necessary when embarking on an HIT implementation. This allows an organization to determine and understand what factors will attract physicians to HIT, which factors might detract physicians from HIT, and what will drive the overall success of an implementation. Important to the success of gaining such acceptance and participation involves facilitating a strong project management process, which includes the creation of the project scope and plan, and the management of the project life cycle. Additional measures that are critical to the success of the objective include effective and thorough communication, a clear project vision, stakeholder identification and analysis, workflow analysis, the accommodation of clinician needs, stakeholder testing and change management. Because movement toward HIT is critical to the quality of healthcare, it is essential to closely follow and use each of these measures together with careful consideration. If facilitated effectively, a healthcare organization will maximize their chances of implementing effective health information technology processes and will end up much closer to the overall goal of a National Health Information Network.