otherwise anticipated on the network when the medical images are to be delivered in real time scheduling the transmission of medical images may cause the medical images to be delivered as soon as possible where a portion of the medical images to be delivered in real time have a high priority and others are to be delivered in real time with relative lower priority the scheduler may organize transmissions to take into account the relative priority of the requests additionally where the medical image transport service is configured to schedule under constrained requests that may occur at a future point in time the scheduler optimizer module 62 may be configured to optimize scheduling of the several requests to accommodate the requests in according to the specified constraints the data management service 44 may also include a policy module 64 that enables the data management service to discern higher priority requests from lower priority requests and to cause higher priority requests to be provided a higher quality of service and enhanced status in the scheduler optimizer module specifically the policy module 64 may enable the data management service to look at the request to determine what application generated the request who is running the application where the application is being run why the application is being run or why the image is being requested the time of day and other priority indications associated with the request for example the data management.