Chenzhang Bao

Dr. Chenzhang Bao is an associate professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He holds William S. Spears Professorship in Business Administration. His research focuses on the implications of health IT and analytics in the value-based care environment. Specifically, he has examined the role of IT innovations in facilitating patient engagement in care delivery and shaping the coordination behavior among caregivers. In addition, he is also interested in quantifying the value of care delivered to various stakeholders and evaluating value-based care initiatives from a policy perspective. Dr. Bao has published his work in leading academic journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.