IHS’s PATH EHR Rollout Aims to Modernize Healthcare for Native Americans

13:13 - 09 Oct 2025

The Indian Health Service plans to pilot its Patients at the Heart (PATH) electronic health record system at Lawton Indian Hospital in Oklahoma starting summer 2026. The launch will mark the federal government’s first cloud-based EHR deployment and represents what IHS CIO Mitchell Thornbrugh calls a “generational opportunity” to modernize Native American healthcare delivery. The Lawton pilot site — which includes the main hospital and two adjoining clinics in Carnegie and Anadarko — is in the enterprise design phase, with configuration workshops running through December 2025. User training...