Deepa Appana
Director of Technology

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Clinical Decision Support Simulation modeling AI and ML

Education: BS, Computer Engineering
Joined the Institute: 2007

Affiliation

positions

  • Director, Institute Technology, Center for Chronic Care Innovation 2007 -
  • Director Technology, HealthPartners Institute 2007 -

    • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • Clinical decision support to improve primary care obesity management in adults with diabetes: clinic-randomized study design. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2025
  • Comparing pharmacist-led telehealth care and clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure: the Hyperlink 3 pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. 
  • Comparison of explanatory and pragmatic design choices in a cluster-randomized hypertension trial: effects on enrollment, participant characteristics, and adherence. 
  • Effect of clinical decision support at community health centers on the risk of cardiovascular disease: a cluster randomized clinical trial. 
  • Implementing a prediabetes clinical decision support system in a large primary care system: design, methods, and pre-implementation results. 
    • Conference Poster
  • Can prioritized clinical decision support in primary care reduce cardiovascular risk? [poster]
    2017
  • Results of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of TeenBP, an EHR-based clinical decision support tool, on recognition of adolescent hypertension [poster]
    2017
  • Frequency of CV Wizard use and gender disparity [poster]
    2013
  • Aspirin decision support using data-driven treatment algorithms [poster]
    2012
  • Simulated provider training improves diabetes management [poster]
    2012
    • Abstract
  • Comparing change in systolic blood pressure with clinic-based care versus telehealth care in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Hyperlink 3) [abstract]. 
  • Maximizing use of chronic disease clinical decision support in primary care clinics: lessons learned from randomized trials [abstract]. 
  • Better care strategies are necessary to address poor medication adherence [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2020
  • Challenges encountered in linking community health centers' electronic health record data to a web-based clinical decision support tool [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Dissemination and sustained use of an outpatient clinical decision system with high use rates, high clinician satisfaction, and positive impact on quality of care [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019

    • presentations

    Presentation
  • Developing and deploying evidence-based clinical decision support (CDS) for aspirin use at the point-of-care [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research 17th Annual Conference
  • Evaluation of provider experience with an electronic health record-based clinical decision support tool [presentation], HMO Research Network (HMORN) 21st Annual Conference: Care Improvement Research: Partnering with Patients, Providers and Operational Leaders
  • Health informatics technology in diabetes care [presentation], Diabetes Translation Research -NIH/NIDDK
  • Online consenting in the simulated diabetes training (SDT) for resident physicians study [presentation], HMO Research Network 16th Annual Conference: Emerging Frontiers in Healthcare Research and Delivery
  • Point-of-care prioritized clinical decision support reduces cardiovascular risk in adults with elevated cardiovascular risk: randomized trial [presentation], Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, 10th Annual

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