Whitmore believes community pharmacists can contribute more to care when patients give them access to a fuller medical record.
Scott Whitmore is the pharmacist and business executive serving as general manager of Aspen RxHealth. His career combines clinical practice management, pharmacy consulting, and work on medication therapy services and software.
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His Aspen RxHealth biography lists more than 30 years of operational leadership and consulting experience. He earned degrees in zoology and pharmacy, and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin.
The same biography describes work across pharmaceutical services, healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, and life insurance. A recurring focus has been identifying drug-therapy problems, through medication therapy management and software that helps define medication risk.
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A Larger Role for Pharmacists
In the question-and-answer section of his company biography, Whitmore argues that patient control of medical records could change community pharmacy practice. With the patient’s permission, access to a fuller history would let pharmacists contribute more to medication decisions.
“Medical record access presents a key opportunity to leverage the expertise of the healthcare system’s most highly trained medication use specialists,” he says. His role at Aspen connects that view with pharmacist-led consultations and tools for health plans and their own clinical teams.
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