Drag-and-Drop

It’s not the latest dance craze (though if you’re keen, here are some from 2015), but it’s when you click and hold an object with a mouse button and then move it to a different location.

When building healthcare interfaces:

Advantages: Drag-and-drop can be easy and fast (because you don’t need to know how to code); great for very simple integration projects.

Disadvantages: Integration really isn’t ever that easy. Drag-and-drop falls short as soon as you have custom requirements like cross referencing information, accessing lookup tables or implementing unique business logic.

 
Every interface I've built has required some amount of scripting. - An honest interface engineer Click To Tweet

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