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title: "InterSystems IRIS for Health"
description: "Central Source of Truth"
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## Role in the Architecture

Operates as the central source of truth (SSOT) for medical imaging operations. 

## Key Responsibilities
- Ingests DICOM objects
- Extracts metadata
- Makes structured data available for analytics and downstream Google Health APIs.

## Scalability
Scales horizontally using ECP (Elastic Cache Protocol). Capable of DICOM coercion, FHIR conversion, and more.