Exploring research trends in healthcare asset management systems : key areas, strategic priorities, and actionable recommendations

Stanimirović, Dalibor (author), Umek, Lan (author), Ravšelj, Dejan (author)

Asset Management Systems (AMS) are increasingly recognized for their potential to enhance operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability across assetintensive sectors. In healthcare, however, the implementation of AMS remains fragmented, despite mounting pressures to improve medical equipment usage, infrastructure reliability, and service delivery. This study presents a literature review supported by a bibliometric analysis of 248 documents on AMS research in healthcare, published up to 2024 and indexed in the Scopus database, examining the evolution of AMS research with a specific focus on healthcare applications. Using Python and VOSviewer, the bibliometric analysis focuses on scientific production, geographical coverage, and major research clusters. The findings highlight a growing global interest in AMS and indicate a broader shift toward digitalization and strategic integration within healthcare systems. We synthesize these insights into a set of key areas and priorities, offering evidence-based recommendations to support more effective AMS adoption in healthcare.

• Language: English
• Keywords: asset management system, healthcare, medical equipment, research trends, bibliometric analysis
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 333-358
• Numbering: Vol. 18, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175029
• UDC: 35:004.4:614.2(4)
• ISSN on article: 2463-7955
• DOI: 10.18690/mls.18.2.333-358.2025
• COBISS.SI-ID: 253039619
• Publication date in RUL: 14.10.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Medicine, law & society
• Publisher: Pravna fakulteta, Pravna fakulteta, University of Maribor Press
• ISSN: 2463-7955
• COBISS.SI-ID: 281851136

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: sistem za upravljanje sredstev, zdravstvena oskrba, medicinska oprema, raziskovalni trendi, bibliometrična analiza