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The Boston-based company will allow employers to customize benefits packages to include adoption, assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy options.

Also, the mental health app Here Hear in Taiwan is set to introduce an AI chatbot.

Cognito Therapeutics announced healthcare industry veteran Christian Howell joined its team as chief commercial officer.

Also, DeepTek has obtained another 510(k) from the US FDA for its AI solution.

Kidney-care company Monogram Health, digital diagnostics company ixlayer and direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers also announced appointments.

Pearly Chen, VP of business development and partnerships at HTC VIVE, relays the results of a report on extended reality use for training healthcare professionals, the feedback received after adoption of the tech and HTC's Accelerator X program.  

Quy Vo-Reinhard, dHealth Foundation director and cofounder, highlights the key challenges and applications for frontier technologies, such as immutable health records, the interoperability of health data exchange and the need for education.

Kathryn Jackson, VP of language operations at AMN Healthcare, discusses how medical interpretation services can improve health equity and outcomes and how providers can effectively work with interpreters to solidify quality care.  

Jacqueline de Leeuw, chief nurse innovation officer at Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc), tells how the hospital achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7, allowing its nurses to access a seamless data flow from multiple external sources.

The generative AI technology will supply patients with answers to healthcare-related questions and scheduling services and offer employees HR-related information.