In a smart decision, Medicare plans to insist that recipients who want the device agree to have information about their medical experience recorded in a national databank.

Federal investigators said H.M.O.'s and hospitals frequently consulted the national databank to check on doctors' qualifications, but rarely contributed any information of their own.

From 1990 to 1999, physician groups reported 60 "adverse actions" to the national databank.

A series of numbers that describes the Milwaukee suspect's genetic code were uploaded by modem to the F.B.I.'s national databank of DNA.

The other 47 remain in the national databank.

Dr. Paul Ferrara of Virginia's Division of Forensic Sciences, which runs the program, says it will take $500 million to establish a full-fledged national databank.

Mr. Mezquia's DNA had been logged into a national databank for convicted felons.

Congress would then review the choices, which will involve using a national computerized databank, and select one it likes.

Allow pupils in group or personal study to take advantage of national databanks and broaden the scope of their study 5.