William Bithoney, MD, FAAP, FAANP
National Medical Leader, Thomson Reuters Healthcare
William Bithoney, MD, FAAP, FAANP, a board certified pediatrician currently serves as National Medical Business Leader of Thomson Reuters Healthcare, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for business and professionals. In his role, he provides clinical expertise and consultation to the Thomson Reuters hospital market providing a patient and client focused leadership role. He is a seasoned healthcare professional with over 25 years’ experience as a physician executive in diverse academic and hospital systems. His areas of expertise include developing managed care strategies, academic strategies, a self-sustaining cycle of continuous performance and quality improvement, utilization review, utilization management, and research directions. Most recently Dr. Bithoney was president and CEO of Bithoney and Associates consulting group providing consultative services aimed at assisting hospitals and physician groups to develop their own Accountable Care Organizations and bundled payment programs. Prior to that Dr. Bithoney served as President & Chief Executive Officer, Sisters of Providence Health System (SPHS) and previously served as Chief Operating Officer & Chief Medical Officer at this institution. He was also President and CEO Mercy Physicians, PC and directed its hospital's ACO activities.
Dr. Bithoney has served as both Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Dean at NY Medical College as well as physician in chief at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, New York, NY and at Mercy Health System, Philadelphia, PA. He spent 17 years on the full time professorial faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard University School of Medicine, as a Senior Associate in Medicine, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of General Pediatrics Primary Care. Senior Associate in Medicine is the highest clinical appointment available at Harvard.
Dr. Bithoney was trained in Biostatistics & Epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston and received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine. He has an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.
In 2010 Dr. Bithoney and his team at SPHS received the award for the most outstanding innovation in healthcare in the United States from the American College of Healthcare Executives for their work on an Accountable Care Organization. Because of its successful ACO, SPHS went from chronically losing money to becoming the most profitable community hospital (out of 64 hospitals) in Massachusetts in 2009. This in spite of being in the poorest city in Massachusetts.
In 2010 DrBithoney and colleagues received further recognition when SPHS was named one of the 100 Top Hospitals in the United States for quality and value by Cleverly and Associates. This award is an imprimatur that a hospital is actively preparing to be ready for healthcare reform, bundled payments and ACO networking.