MEDICAL APPROACH TO SYSTEMS SCIENCE

The increasing complexity of Minimally Invasive Therapy and surgery re quires the transformation and application of classic systems theory. T he basic tools of systems analysis and design are essential to realize technology that functions in a co-ordinated fashion to ensure a safe, smooth and precise execution of interventions or operations on a huma n being. The paper describes the basic classification of systems and o utlines the speculative structure of an MIT Operating System (MITOS) f rom the medico-technical point of view. Future developments such as re mote handled telepresence surgery and CT/MR image-guided surgery are i ncluded in the perspective.