Virginia Technology Services history

VA Administrator Robert P. Nimmo followed up on February 18, 1982 with an Executive Order describing how the DHCP was to be organized and managed within VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery.

In 1995, patient charts were available only 60 percent of the time at VA facility patient encounters.

Due to a number of shortcomings, including lack of enforcement mechanisms, the section was updated in 1998 as part of the Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act.

OIT rapidly expands VA Video Connect to support a 2000 percent increase in Veteran telehealth sessions driven by COVID-19, enabling VA caregivers to continue to provide services to Veterans.

By 2007, VA and DoD expanded the capabilities for prescription and drug allergy data to include semantic interoperability, allowing for a more complete clinical understanding of data across both systems.

Prior to 2009, VA only delivered about one-third of its projects on time and new functionality every three to seven years.

The VA Point of Service (VPS, aka Kiosks) Project which was completed in 2014, resulting in approximately 5,500 total VPS kiosks deployed to 146 VAMCs nationwide.

VT Stories, the 2015 Beyond Boundaries oral history initiative from President Tim Sands, has partnered with the Council on Virginia Tech History to preserve stories of the university's communities.

Formed in 2017, the Council on Virginia Tech History consists of cross-disciplinary experts from the university and surrounding communities.