Today's Medical Technology & Healthcare News

Welcome to Med{Tech}Pulze, your daily curated digest of the most important stories from the intersection of medicine and technology. Our editorial team aggregates news from over 100 trusted sources including STAT News, FierceBiotech, MedTech Dive, Healthcare IT News, and leading technology publications to bring you the developments that matter most.

Each story is selected based on relevance to healthcare professionals, medical device developers, health IT specialists, and technology innovators. We prioritize coverage of FDA approvals, clinical breakthroughs, digital health innovations, AI in healthcare, and emerging medical technologies. Updated multiple times daily.

The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 5: GMM in Excel

This article introduces the Gaussian Mixture Model as a natural extension of k-Means, by improving how distance is measured through variances and the Mahalanobis distance. Instead of assigning points to clusters with hard boundaries, GMM uses probabilities learned through the...

Read more →

Apple Researchers Release CLaRa: A Continuous Latent Reasoning Framework for Compression‑Native RAG with 16x–128x Semantic Document Compression

How do you keep RAG systems accurate and efficient when every query tries to stuff thousands of tokens into the context window and the retriever and generator are still optimized as 2 separate, disconnected systems? A team of researchers from Apple and University of Edinburgh released CLaRa...

Read more →

UK and Germany plan to commercialise quantum supercomputing

The UK and Germany plan to integrate their science sectors to accelerate the commercialisation of quantum supercomputing technology. Announced on the final day of the German president’s state visit, these joint commitments target the gap between R&D and enterprise application in computing, sensing...

Read more →

Google outlines MIRAS and Titans, a possible path toward continuously learning AI

A year after publishing its Titans paper, Google has formally detailed the architecture on its research blog, pairing it with a new framework called MIRAS. Both projects target a major frontier in AI: models that keep learning during use and maintain a functional long-term memory instead of...

Read more →

Robots’ Holiday Wishes Come True: NVIDIA Jetson Platform Offers High-Performance Edge AI at Festive Prices

Developers, researchers, hobbyists and students can take a byte out of holiday shopping this season as NVIDIA has unwrapped special discounts on the NVIDIA Jetson family of developer kits for edge AI and robotics — available through Sunday, Jan. 11. Whether tapping into the breakthrough...

Read more →

Australia unveils national cancer data framework and more briefs

Australia launches national cancer data frameworkThe federal government of Australia has developed the National Cancer Data Framework to establish a unified, nationwide approach to collecting and using cancer data.Based on a media release, the framework sets strategic directions for consistent data...

Read more →

Korean AI explains osteoporosis risk from chest X-ray

Seoul National University Hospital researchers have come up with an AI model that can both classify and explain bone densities in chest X-ray images. WHAT'S IT ABOUTThe research team collected data from approximately 14,502 women who underwent chest X-ray (CXR) and bone density test (DXA)...

Read more →