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Derek Hansen, PhD

Senior Data Engineer

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, 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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Research

Projects

Federally funded

Health AI Assurance

FDA-funded validation of electrocardiogram devices and independent evaluation of clinical AI on Northwell's own patients, before and after a tool reaches the bedside.

Federally funded · R01NR020774

In-hospital deterioration prediction

Deep learning models that estimate a hospitalized patient's risk of deterioration continuously, from the electronic health record and from wearable sensors, so that clinicians are warned hours before a rapid response or ICU transfer.

Publications

Selected papers

Journal of General Internal MedicineMar 2026

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Externally Validated Epic Clinical Decision Support Tools

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