2025 Orlando Cluster

Two major trends have reshaped 21st-century healthcare: the growth of employed physician groups and the shift towards outpatient care. This transformation, combined with more recent headwinds like physician shortages, intense competition between health systems, staffing difficulties, aging infrastructure and financial pressures, has made efficiently running ambulatory networks increasingly challenging, requiring leaders to manage complex networks that are operationally, financially, culturally and geographically distinct from traditional hospital systems.

In this seminar, you’ll explore the current realities, challenges, trends and emerging best practices in the management of medical groups and ambulatory networks. Topics will include:

• Physician alignment
• Strategic planning
• Financial stewardship
• Performance measurement and management
• Patient access optimization
• Ambulatory practice/clinic operations
• Technological integration
• Organizational support

You will leave with actionable insights and tools to lead your organization in an increasingly complex and outpatient-driven healthcare landscape.

Seminar Objectives

• Describe the key drivers behind the shift from hospital-based to ambulatory care and the rise of employed physician groups. Explore the evolution of these trends over the next 3‒10 years.
• Examine the unique operational, financial, cultural and geographical dynamics of managing ambulatory networks and medical groups.
• Learn strategies for effective physician alignment, engagement and buy-in.
• Gain tools for developing and executing ambulatory strategy and securing institutional support.
• Strengthen skills in financial stewardship and performance management.
• Discover methods to optimize patient access and enhance ambulatory practice/clinic operations.
• Assess the role of technology and digital engagement tools in enabling efficient, coordinated ambulatory care.
• Reflect on the evolving leadership competencies required to drive integration, growth and transformation in an outpatient-centric environment.

Who Should Attend:

Healthcare executives responsible for employed physician networks, ambulatory networks and/or medical groups, chief medical officers, chief operating officers, physician executives, clinical service line leaders

Course Faculty:

• David Brody, Senior Vice President, Ambulatory Operations Officer, Central Market at Northwell Health