How Med Tech Is Transforming Veteran Care

Mark Zhang has a quick answer for anyone who assumes the Department of Veterans Affairs is slow to change. The VA’s acting assistant undersecretary for health points to a list of firsts that came out of the agency: the liver transplant, the nicotine patch, the pacemaker, and electronic health records long before they were standard. The approach now, he told MobiHealthNews in January 2026 , is to “move fast responsibly.”