EXPLORING THE RESEARCH ON HEALTH CARE COMPETITIVENESS: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVE

The SARS-CoV2 pandemic crisis presents unprecedented challenges and has profound implications for the way governments plan and manage their strategy for the development of the medical system, with increasing demand from patients. This phenomenon has led researchers to analyze more competitive management models for the development of organizations. Additionally, the emergence of the SARS-CoV2 virus has influenced the general outlook on how healthcare organizations have managed their resources and outlined sustainable development strategies. This article presents a bibliometric analysis, with the help of two datasets retrieved from Scopus, which aims to examine how literature reflects general competitiveness in the health system. Moreover, how literature reflect the global competitiveness of the healthcare environment during the pandemic period. Thus, in a first step, the data collection technique consisted of searching for the keywords 'competitiveness', 'competitive advantage', 'health system', 'health care' and their derivatives, while in the second step, the word 'COVID19' was added in the analysis together with its derivatives. The results indicate an upward trend in scientific research both for competitiveness at a general level and for the implications of the pandemic on the medical system’s competitiveness.