Abstract: A method for creating medical documentation in a hospital information system uses a mobile device, in which a target form is created in the hospital information system as a result of an adapted process for communicating an optimized form definition to a mobile device, which is then used to collect and record the necessary data for the target form using an intermediary data structure called a dummy form. The dummy form is a limited version of the target form (containing a subset of the data of the target form), but behaves in the hospital information system as a target form. A part of the data is captured as digitally recorded multimedia content, which may transcribed later on as text in the target form.