Scott Whitmore is a business executive with 30+ years of operational leadership, clinical practice management, and pharmacy consulting experience. Scott has transformed companies, driving 10X revenue and employee growth. He is an entrepreneurial visionary with a unique perspective based on pharmaceutical, healthcare, PBM, and life insurance expertise. Throughout his career, Scott has been engaged in finding and solving drug therapy problems via MTM services as well as via SaaS solutions designed to define medication risk.
Scott holds a BS degree in zoology, a professional BS pharmacy degree, and an MBA, all from the University of Wisconsin.
What role do you believe pharmacists will play in the shaping of future value-based care?
The advent of electronic medical records has forever changed the practice of medicine and health-system-based pharmacy. We are now moving in the direction of patients being the central owners of their medical records. The likely result is that patients can direct anyone to view their medication history.
I believe this self-directed medical record access will have a substantial impact on community-based pharmacists, as they will soon be empowered, with permission, to read and edit/contribute to a patient’s entire medical record. Medical record access presents a key opportunity to leverage the expertise of the healthcare system’s most highly trained medication use specialists. I believe the inevitable result will be to enhance patient care value within the existing fragmented medication use system.
