title: Software agents in surgery: an update.
abstract: Intelligent and, thus, autonomously reacting software programs are capable of handling a lot of different tasks as has been realized in economics and network administration. The same so-called software agents can be used for a variety of organizational tasks in medicine. Some software agents already manage an individual patient's health care record from documentation to ambulant or stationary admission, surgical planning, and many other tasks which currently consume more than half of a physician's daily working time. Hence, not only a large potential of time, but also of economical savings result to the physicians' new disposition.
authors.affiliation: BioMedical Data Processing Group (BMDPG), Spiegelgasse 1, 93047 Regensburg, Germany. markus.mohr@mazimoi.de
authors.forename: Markus T J
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Mohr
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008331:Management Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software