A device (10) for editing an electronic medical record (EMR) is provided. The device includes a mobile device (12) including a touch-sensitive display (14), a communication link (16), and at least one electronic processor (18) programmed to cause the mobile device to perform an EMR data entry method. The method includes: displaying a medical document (20) on the touch-sensitive display: overlaying an EMR data entry fillable form (22) having user-editable fields (24) on the touch-sensitive display as a partially transparent overlay (26) superimposed on the displayed medical document; transferring text content (28) from the medical document into at least one of the user-editable fields of the overlaid EMR data entry fillable form; and after filling out the overlaid EMR data entry fillable form by operations including at least the transferring, uploading at least the content of the user-editable fields of the filled out EMR data entry fillable form to an EMR (32) via the wireless communication link.