Fourteen years of shortcuts, secrets and one very long June weekend.
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Four secrets hidden in RadCase for years. Each one below is a working replica — go find them.
Type kingme into the Accession box and the window grows, revealing a row of hidden
green debug buttons. Watch closely: the moment you type a “k”, the box starts hiding what you type, so nobody
looking over your shoulder sees the password.
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Never shown on screen. The only way to find it is to take the program apart — which is exactly what an auditor would do.
If IMPAX ever sends RadCase its launch application signal, RadCase answers with this. It has been wired up all along and is almost never seen.
You tried grabbing clinical information then pasting it into a non-text editing program/field. Go to your dictation software, and try again from inside (it must be the active window). Now for a word from our sponsor:
System.InvalidOperationException: SendKeys cannot run inside this application at System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send(String keys) at Satellite.frmMain.type(String text) at Satellite.frmMain.getClinicalHelper()
When Win+H can’t paste the clinical history, the apology comes with a word from our sponsor: the full error report.
All shortcuts work from anywhere while RadCase is running in the tray.
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| Win+X Win+C Win+Shift+X |
Search. Refreshes the current patient, then resets the IMPAX search and fills in the patient’s name and date of birth so every study they’ve had comes up. Long names that IMPAX cuts off with “…” become a wildcard; middle names are dropped because sites record them inconsistently. Win+C and Win+Shift+X were added in 2026 because Windows 10/11 keep Win+X for their own menu. |
| Win+Shift+C | Tag current case. Captures the study on screen (user, site, accession) and pops RadCase up so you can mark it Teaching, Follow Up, Procedure, QA or Private, add a diagnosis and keywords, and submit. This was Win+C until 2026. |
| Win+H | Clinical history. Pulls the indication from IMPAX (skipping the allergy information, keeping multiple lines) and pastes it straight into your dictation. Added July 2013 for the inpatient work at St. Boniface. |
| Win+W | Comparison. Pastes the comparison study’s date into your report, e.g. “October 1, 2016” — and adds the hospital, e.g. “(St. Boniface General Hospital)”, when the comparison was done somewhere else. Added May 2016 (it started life as the laptop key). |
| Win+N | Back to New. Sets the current study’s status back to New. One of the first features, June 2012. |
| Win+Z | Trainee click-off. For staff reviewing a trainee’s work: marks the current study as trainee-dictated and then closes off everything in the current display. |
| Win+S | Capture key image number never released Grabs the series and image number of the current key image and puts it on the clipboard, ready to paste as “(series 3, image 42)”. It stayed in the build but was never released publicly, despite months of testing, because it was unreliable (see Mitra below). |
| Click the Accession box | Copies the accession; with several accessions, a single click copies just the first one. |
| Double-click the Accession box | Copies everything in the box. |
The root cause was the Mitra Context Server (mitra_context_server), the intermediary
that lets outside programs talk to IMPAX. It took one entire, beautiful June weekend to figure it out: the context
server itself was fragile and would work a few times before crashing.
Mitra was essentially the software engine behind IMPAX for most of its first decade. Agfa sold and branded the product, but Mitra, a company in Waterloo, Ontario, wrote much of the code.
After 2002. The Mitra brand was absorbed into Agfa HealthCare over the following years. Waterloo became one of Agfa HealthCare’s main R&D centres, and IMPAX 6 was developed largely there. The IMPAX line later fed into Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging platform. So the Waterloo engineering base that started as Mitra stayed central to the product long after the name disappeared. If you go through file listings and crash logs, Mitra is usually there!
Pieced together from the dated comments in the RadCase source code.
glitchy at best, completely unreliable at worst.This is where RadCase really begins.
took longer than I thought.The first dated build,
RadCase(2013.7.28).kingme god mode. The next day, Win+W comparisons.First time I have been back to the project.A case time log is added.
Updated license — crashed again.
Minute to midnight!
Version expires tomorrow.
this is the final year… 14th year starting.