The Post-Acquisition Workflow Profile addresses the need to schedule, coordinate and monitor the status of typical post-acquisition steps, such as performing QA, additional reconstructions, Computer Aided Detection, clinical analysis applications, image processing or visualizations such as preparing 3D surface views. Worklists containing workitems for such tasks are generated and can be queried, workitems can be selected and the resulting status returned from the system performing the work to the system managing the work and notifications provided to other interested systems.