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
    Highlights
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Clinical decision support system for primary care of opioid use disorder: a randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA internal medicine. 2025
  • Clinical decision support to improve primary care obesity management in adults with diabetes: clinic-randomized study design. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2025
  • Design and protocol of a pragmatic clinical trial to improve cognitive impairment detection in primary care. 
    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. 
    Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.. 2022
  • Comparison of explanatory and pragmatic design choices in a cluster-randomized hypertension trial: effects on enrollment, participant characteristics, and adherence. 
    Trials. 2022
  • Effect of clinical decision support at community health centers on the risk of cardiovascular disease: a cluster randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2022
  • Implementing a prediabetes clinical decision support system in a large primary care system: design, methods, and pre-implementation results. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022
  • Pragmatic clinic randomized trial to improve chronic kidney disease care: design and adaptation due to COVID disruptions. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2021
  • Challenges involved in establishing a web-based clinical decision support tool in community health centers. 
    Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2020
  • Design of a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial comparing telehealth care and best practice clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2020
  • Clinical decision support directed to primary care patients and providers reduces cardiovascular risk: a randomized trial. 
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2018
  • Clinical decision support for recognition and management of hypertension: a randomized trial. 
    Pediatrics. 2018
  • Potential misclassification of blood pressure status in children and adolescents with short or tall stature. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2016
  • Educating resident physicians using virtual case-based simulation improves diabetes management: a randomized controlled trial. 
    Academic Medicine. 2014
  • Using simulation technology to teach diabetes care management skills to resident physicians. 
    Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 2013
    • 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
  • Testing a clinical decision support process to lower cardiovascular risk of patients [poster]
    2012
  • A simulated diabetes learning intervention improves provider knowledge and confidence in managing diabetes [poster]
    2011
  • Designing a patient interface for shared decision support [poster]
    2011
  • Provider satisfaction with a simulated learning approach to diabetes management [poster]
    2011
    • Abstract
  • Comparing change in systolic blood pressure with clinic-based care versus telehealth care in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Hyperlink 3) [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Maximizing use of chronic disease clinical decision support in primary care clinics: lessons learned from randomized trials [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • 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
  • Disseminating web-based EHR-linked diabetes clinical decision support system from one medical group to another: case study [abstract 1377-P]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Evaluation of provider experience with an EHR-based clinical decision support tool [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Sustained use of a diabetes clinical decision support tool in primary care practices [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Educating resident physicians using virtual case-based simulation improves diabetes management--a randomized, controlled trial [abstract 322-OR]. 
    Diabetes. 2014
  • Aspirin decision support using data-driven treatment algorithms [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Testing a clinical decision support process to lower cardiovascular risk of patients [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Virtual diabetes education improves resident physician knowledge and performance: a cluster randomized trial [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Virtual diabetes education improves resident physician knowledge and performance: a cluster-randomized trial [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2013
  • A simulated diabetes learning intervention improves provider knowledge and confidence in managing diabetes [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Experiences in designing a simple education interface for shared decision support for cardiovascular risk [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Primary care residents highly rate simulated diabetes training [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Simulated diabetes training helps providers bring patients to goals: a cluster randomized trial [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Simulated training improves provider knowledge and confidence in managing diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Personalized learning intervention to enhance hypertension care skills of physicians and extended-care providers [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2010
    • 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], Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health 10th Annual Conference
  • Sustaining use of a clinical decision support tool for primary care providers [presentation], HMO Research Network (HMORN) 21st Annual Conference: Care Improvement Research: Partnering with Patients, Providers and Operational Leaders
  • The need for new care strategies to prevent A1c relapse [presentation], HMO Research Network (HMORN) 21st Annual Conference: Care Improvement Research: Partnering with Patients, Providers and Operational Leaders
  • Virtual diabetes education improves resident physician knowledge and performance: a cluster-randomized trial [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research 17th Annual Conference
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