Techies of White House plug in the president and want to attach the cable's other end to you

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Staffers at the White House want to bring in new telecommunications systems to enable the president to communicate directly with citizens. They have talked with Bell Atlantic Corp about putting presidential messages on a residential voice-mail system that is currently being tested. The White House may also install a digital photography system that can transmit pictures of the president and a constituent to home-town newspapers. White House staffers maintain forums on CompuServe and America Online, two popular on-line services. The Clinton administration found antique equipment when it moved into the White House. The switchboard is an old-fashioned cord-and-plug affair, and some of the old computers cannot be networked. Most of all, the staffers want their own TV broadcasting system, comparable to C-SPAN.

Clinton, Bill, Telecommunications systems, Science and technology policy, Politics, White House, National Government, Upgrading

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Trinity Computers miscalculate and some investors pull the plug

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Trinity Investment Management Corp uses computer-generated quantitative investment techniques to manage portfolios and make investment decisions but has faltered in 1989 to produce a gain of only 13.4 percent. The figure is less than half the 31.7 percent rise of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Trinity, which has been losing clients as a result of the poor performance, attributes 11 percentage points of the 1989 18-point lag behind Standard and Poor's 500 to the value style of investing programmed into the computers. Trinity, which has outpaced the overall stock market by two percentage points annually since it began managing money in 1981, says that the poor performance of 1989 should not be repeated for at least 20 years.

Investment advice, Management, Portfolio management, Investments, Chief executive officers, Financial Analysis Software, Simulation, Calderwood, Stanford, Trinity Investment Management Corp.

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Computers helping doctors match care with costs can lower bills, study says

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Researchers at Indiana University report that doctors who use computer technology rather than paper to order tests and drugs for hospital patients can significantly cut medical costs. In the study of doctors' treatment of nearly 5,000 patients at an Indianapolis hospital, computer-using doctors reduced charges by nearly 13 percent compared to paper-using doctors. The software used in the research project allows a doctor to immediately see the cost of tests and therapies being ordered. In the study, 46 teams of residents and interns used traditional paper hospital charts to order services for their patients, while 22 teams used the computer software.

Research, Hospitals, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Cost control, Study, Cost Reduction, Medical Diagnosis, Hospital

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