1. A method of retrieving medical data, the method comprising: receiving, via a user interface displayed on a user computing device, at least a first rule indicating types of medical data to be copied to the user computing device and a second rule indicating one or more of a modality, acquisition site, exam status, keywords in an exam description, or exam priority of medical data to be copied to the user computing device; determining, by the user computing device, rights of a user operating the user computing device to view medical data of respective patients, wherein users have varying rights to view respective medical data based on at least their respective medical training and/or their associations with respective medical data; selecting, by the user computing device, respective medical data for copying to the user computing device from a remote network accessible storage device in response to at least determining that the user has rights to view the respective medical data and the respective medical data matches the first rule and the second rule; and initiating transfer of the selected respective medical data for display on the user computing device.