Charles J. Mundt, MA
Outreach Specialist
517-353-8131
Charles J. Mundt is an Outreach Specialist with the Institute for Health Care Studies since September 2006.
Mr. Mundt has been involved in a multi-state study quality assurance activity that has a goal of improving the case identification and management of newborns with endocrine disorders. He is also working on improving record linkage methods for the Kentucky Birth Surveillance Registry and continues to be involved in monitoring changes in Oral Health and Dental Workforce in Kentucky.
Mr. Mundt has been involved in health care industry for more than 35 years. He worked at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). While at MCW, he developed data-management systems and software to facilitate the completion of a wide range of survey research activities including one project requiring the scanning, verification, and analysis of 85,000 surveys (350,000+ scanned pages). He was also the project manager for the Milwaukee area's program of establishing the database for the registry (multi-site) for Heart Bypass Surgical Patients. He was also a systems analyst in a wide variety of clinical and health services research projects.
After spending six years at the Southeastern Wisconsin regional health planning agency (Director of Planning), he spent 13 years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin in several different activities including systems analyst in Planning and Research in their MIS department, systems analyst/planner in Corporate Planning, analyst for several HCFA special research initiatives related to Medicare Home Health Reimbursement, and project planning for expanding their home health claims processing to other areas in the country. Before leaving Blue Cross/Shield, he was manager of corporate systems development. In that capacity, he established their first wide-area personal-computer network, and managed numerous projects that defined, designed, and implemented databases.
Mr. Mundt has been involved in the evaluation of ambulatory and community care programs. Other areas of research include pap and colposcopic screening (institutional), high blood pressure screening (community), and the impact of establishing a walk-in clinic (institutional and community). In addition, he has designed, written, and maintained software systems that document the practice content in nurse managed community clinics since the late 1980s.
While at the University of Louisville he served as a research associate and has developed software, managed data systems, developed a scannable data collection system, and overseen the management of data on a number of projects. He was the database manager for a CMS and AHRQ funded a six-site evaluation (MT, NY, KY, IN, PA) of systems that utilize an electronic scale for monitoring CHF patients. From the University of Louisville Data Center, he designed, wrote, and maintained software used by the RNs at each site. From these sites, data is sent to the Data Center on a regular basis and is merged with scanned surveys and CMS claim data. Quality control and analytical reports were generated using both SAS and SPSS for Windows analytical packages.
He also participated and supported research involving ovarian cancer, case reports at the Jefferson County coroner’s office, and several oral heath projects.