A Vendor-Neutral Archive (VNA) is an enterprisewide image management platform and repository of patient-centric medical images and studies, and other unstructured clinical content resulting from care activity. Vendor neutrality is achieved by integrating with all notable PACS and accommodating proprietary vendor and healthcare provider requirements for medical image storage, retrieval, manipulation and viewing. A VNA can increase the healthcare provider’s control and ownership over its medical imaging data, mitigate PACS migration complexity and cost, and decrease the healthcare provider’s dependence on individual PACS vendors.