Propuesta metodológica para la aplicación de la norma ISO 37001 en los procedimientos de compras de medicamentos y dispositivos médicos en entidades públicas.

Abstract

This research addresses the issue of the application of ISO 37001 regulations in the public procurement processes of the Ministry of Public Health in relation to the price premium in which various essential products were purchased during the Covid-19 pandemic. The main objective of the study is aimed at analyzing the ISO 37001 Standard and its relationship in the innovative anti-bribery management in the Ministry of Public Health, in order to analyze the applicability of the ISO 37001 standard in the Ministry of Health in order to guarantee the adequacy of the Medicines and Medical Devices Purchasing processes. Within the methodology, an applied, qualitative, non-experimental design and descriptive level investigation was selected. Among the main results obtained, it is observed that the implementation of the ISO 37001 standard has been a subject of research and application proposal in public and private companies, with the purpose of reducing and/or eradicating corruption rates, within the which is the case of overprices registered during the state of exception due to the Covid-19 pandemic reflect a magnitude of 400% in the case of N95 masks, 100% in surgical masks.