The journal was founded in 2008 by a group of Russian experts in medical simulation education and skills training, representatives of the higher medical school and developers of medical simulation equipment. The Certificate of the State Registration of the journal as a Mass Media under the registration number PI FS77-34673 was received on December 23, 2008. From 2009 to 2019, the journal was published with semi-annual frequency, and from 2020 - quarterly. From its foundation to the present day, the journal is the world only specialized publication in Russian language dedicated to the use of simulation and virtual technologies in medical education, training, clinical practice, research and testing. Since 2012, after the National Public Organization “Russian Society of Simulation Training in Medicine” (ROSOMED) and its registration with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the journal “Virtual Technologies in Medicine” has become a its status of being the official printed organ, the journal of the ROSOMED Society.