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Moving to an Electronic Health Records environment is all about change.

"We must become the change we want to see."

Mahatma Gandhi

Eight Steps to Transform Your Organization
from "Winning at Change" by John P. Kotter

1.	Establish a Sense of Urgency
		Examine market and competitive realities
		Identify and discuss crises, potential crises, or major opportunities

2.	Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
		Assemble a group with enough power to lead the change effort
		Encourage the group to work as a team

3.	Create a Vision
		Create a vision to help direct the change effort
		Develop strategies for achieving that vision

4.	Communicate the Vision
		Use every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision and strategies
		Teach new behaviors by the example of the guiding coalition

5.	Empower Others to Act on the Vision
		Get rid of obstacles to change
		Change systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision
		Encourage risk taking and nontraditional ideas, activities, and actions

6.	Plan for and Create Short-Term Wins
		Plan for visible performance improvements
		Creating those improvements
		Recognize and reward employees involved in the improvements

7.	Consolidate Improvements and Produce Still More Change
		Use increased credibility to change systems, structures, and policies that don't fit the vision
		Hire, promote, and develop employees who can implement the vision
		Reinvigorate the process with new projects, themes, and change agents

8.	Institutionalize New Approaches
		Articulate the connections between the new behaviors and organizational success
		Develop the means to ensure leadership development and succession