Picture archiving and communication system or PACS is an electronic network which connects MRI’s, CT scans to computers at other locations. This can be used to view MRI images by physicians sitting at a third location and consult critical cases. Through this, a medical report or an image can be viewed by any radiologist or physicians who are sitting elsewhere, in any city or part of the world. PACS imaging equips the doctors with special diagnostic tools which can take health care to another level. This has even made X rays redundant, as the patient is not required to carry the films along with him for check ups. Many physicians can simultaneously see the scans and films and reach a conclusion quickly which can save a lot of time.

But with all the good things that technology brings there is has some bad effects also. As we are becoming more and more dependant on computers and electronics, we have to even think of ways of disposing this mammoth e- waste. Computer waste has posed such environmental hazards that we have to come up with permanent solution for it. Computer recycling takes care of the waste generated regularly. Like most places in New England, computer recycling in New Hampshire has been effective since 2007 and it has banned electronic waste from being disposed off in landfills.

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