What's New? 

• Rhino Health won the 2024 Digital Health Awards as a Rising Star in the "Health Equity" category. This award is in recognition of Federated Computing's ability to enable broad participation in the healthcare data ecosystem, which is an important prerequisite to achieving the full potential of data to improve health outcomes for a diverse population.
  
  
• Rhino Health co-founder & CEO Ittai Dayan, MD spoke on a panel at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) 2024 conference. Dr. Dayan described how the Rhino Federated Computing Platform (Rhino FCP) is a perfect tool to support international value-based care data collaborations such as ICHOM's Learning Collaboratives and other partnerships among providers, payors, and pharmaceutical companies.
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• Dr. Dayan also spoke at Google Cloud's Cancer AI Symposium. The panel focused on the potential impact of AI for clinicians, and Dr. Dayan discussed the need for strong data collaboration partnerships in order to ensure that AI is developed responsibly and is actually effective in the clinic.
  
  
• Google Cloud included Rhino as one of the inaugural partners for Google's National Institutes of Health STRIDES Initiative marketplace. Researchers across the NIH ecosystem will now be able to quickly deploy Rhino FCP in order to simplify their cross-organization data collaborations using Edge Computing and Federated Learning.

Rhino Federated Computing Platform (Rhino FCP) Updates

Harmonization Copilot Semantic Mapping Enhancements

Quality of life improvements to enhance Reviewing and Editing a Semantic Mapping, exporting semantic mappings, and providing deployment guidance, including:

• Added support for searching for values to override recommendations from the system. The search results are constrained to custom vocabulary target terms or OMOP domain terms to expedite finding the right target term.
• Added a bulk action to set the target value of several entries.
• Added more information about a Semantic Mapping in a detailed tooltip.
• When exporting a Semantic Mapping, include the top recommended term in the export for mappings in review.
• Added hardware benchmarks/recommendations for Rhino Clients for Harmonization Copilot usage.

Harmonization Copilot Syntactic Mapping Preliminary Release

We are adding exciting new functionality that will allow creating syntactic mappings and transforming data to OMOP v5.4 with a low-code experience. As a step towards that goal, we have released an initial low-code data transformation that can be configured with a JSON file. 

EU-Based Orchestration Layer

We have deployed an orchestration layer (aka Rhino Cloud) in the EU so customers that have EU data residency requirements can keep all operations with Rhino within EU. 

Additional Options for Client-Mounted Storage

FCP now supports a few additional options for Client-Mounted Storage:

• S3 access within the VPC without specific IAM credentials
• Region-specific S3 bucket access

For further information, visit the following documentation article: Client Mounted Storage: How to access data in AWS S3, GCP CS or the SMB network files?

Metadata When Exporting Datasets

When working with Datasets in GC code (especially with multi-dataset GC, and even more so with the new “Any” input schema capability) you sometimes want to know some more information about the Datasets in order to decide how to handle them in your code. For example: you may want to handle Datasets from different schemas or workgroups differently, or if you have multiple input Datasets, you might want to handle them in chronological order based on creation time. In order to make this simpler, we’ve added a new metadata.json file that is exported alongside the dataset.csv and any file_data and/or dicom_data in the Dataset.

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