Images, upon completion of a study, automatically move from the modality to the near-term archive and the web-server. Demographic and image storage parameters, but not the images themselves, are stored on the database server. Any image can be viewed from any workstation. Images also can be automatically or manually routed to specific primary diagnostic workstations based on workflow parameters stored in the database server and/or individual requests (e.g., requests to push an image to a specific location or requests to pull an image from a specific location).