The department’s records platform, VistA, first instituted in the late 1970s, is lauded as effective, reliable, and even innovative, but decades of under-investment have eroded the platform. Multiple times throughout the 2010s, the VA has said it will replace VistA (short for Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture) with a commercial product, and the latest iteration of this effort is currently ongoing.

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