Researcher · Division of Health AI

Derek Hansen, PhD

Derek Hansen, PhD, is a Senior Data Engineer at the Division of Health AI at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, where he builds the data infrastructure that supports the lab's clinical machine learning models. He is the lead author of a paper on the division's EHR-based in-hospital deterioration model (NIDM), under review at IEEE BHI 2026, and a coauthor of a systematic review and meta-analysis of externally validated Epic clinical decision support tools under review at the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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Role: Senior Data Engineer
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Research projects

In-hospital deterioration prediction (EHR)

The Northwell In-hospital Deterioration Model (NIDM) is an EHR-based deep learning model that continuously estimates a patient's risk of a deterioration event, unplanned ICU transfer, intubation, or death, within the next 48 hours from routinely collected electronic health record data. Deployed in silent mode inside Northwell's Epic environment for prospective monitoring, NIDM is built to surface the patient-specific factors behind each prediction, so care teams see not only who is at rising risk but why, early enough to act.

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