What's New at Rhino? April 2025
Community Highlights
AWS Life Sciences Symposium - May 6
Rhino Federated Computing is proud to participate in the AWS Life Sciences Symposium 2025, where industry leaders will gather to explore how cloud technologies, AI, and data-driven innovation are accelerating drug development and improving patient outcomes. Rhino will showcase how its Federated Computing Platform (FCP) enables secure, privacy-preserving data collaboration across institutions—eliminating the need to move sensitive health data while empowering scalable, compliant AI development.
Payments Canada Summit - AI in Payments Deep Dive - May 8
Rhino’s Chris Laws will join a panel at the Payments Canada Summit focused on AI in payments, along with representatives from Google, Swift, and Royal Bank of Canada. The panel will cover how AI can improve operations in areas such as liquidity management, fraud, personalized payments, and automation of compliance.
Webinar on Data Harmonization with Sheba Medical Center - May 14
We are excited to host a webinar with our partners at Sheba Medical Center demonstrating how Sheba is using Rhino Federated Computing's generative AI data standardization application to accelerate the construction of FHIR IL-CORE profiles. The webinar will showcase how the Rhino Harmonization Copilot utilizes GenAI to build efficient, no-code ETL processes to automatically convert databases to a FHIR-compliant structure.
Federated Learning Workshop at Columbia University - May 16
Rhino’s Daniel Feller will present to researchers, clinicians, and technologists at Columbia University on May 16. This workshop will cover core FL principles, case studies across clinical domains, regulatory and ethical insights, emerging innovations like personalized FL, and include live demos and an industry panel.
Insights from VP of Life Sciences, Elke Nelson-Nichols
After decades of working across healthcare and life sciences, Rhino’s Elke Nelson-Nichols shares her insights on the challenges of data collaboration without compromising privacy, control, or compliance in our latest blog post.
Product Updates
Self Service User Management
Workgroup Admins can now view and manage Rhino user accounts for their workgroup directly in the Rhino FCP GUI. This new functionality makes it easier to add and remove users to workgroups, simplifying setup and ongoing account maintenance on FCP.
Data Harmonization to FHIR and to Custom Data Models
The Harmonization Copilot now supports creating Syntactic Mapping transformations to custom data models with a low-code GUI. This expands the ability to use the easy to use GUI to create transformations beyond OMOP, to any data model. This can also be used to perform transformations to FHIR with different specifications.
Removed Dependency on SSM in Rhino Clients
Rhino Clients previously required installation of AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for ongoing operation (e.g. for credential rotation and for software updates). This dependency has been removed, and it is now possible to install Rhino Clients without installing or activating SSM.
Enhanced Support for Homomorphic Encryption
Homomorphic Encryption can be used in concert with Federated Learning to protect the underlying data from being exposed in the Federated Server. Rhino FCP now allows users to configure Homomorphic Encryption directly within the Rhino FCP GUI and Rhino SDK, which enables this mechanism in the underlying NVIDIA Flare FL training tasks.
Organization-Specific Password Length Requirements
If your organization has specific security requirements regarding minimum password length, these can now be configured into Rhino FCP and enforced for all users within the organization.
