This book constitutes revised selected papers from the ECAI 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, K4HelP 2008, held in Patras, Greece, on July 21-22, 2008.

The 10 papers presented were selected according to their relevance, quality and originality from 14 papers submitted. In addition two invited papers are included in the volume. The papers are structured in sections on technologies to manage health care procedural knowledge, methodologies to manage health care procedural knowledge, and computer systems to manage health care procedural knowledge.

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. This book reports on the results achieved in this area, discusses the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains and society, and also provides a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a reality. Current topics of research include communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care.