13. A medical system, comprising: a portable electronic device having a touch-sensitive user interface through which data entry is performed with respect to an electrical stimulation therapy, wherein the portable electronic device includes a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of: receiving a request from a healthcare professional to perform data entry in a text input field in which textual information can be entered via a virtual keyboard, wherein the receiving the request comprises detecting a click of the text input field via the touch-sensitive user interface; displaying, on a region of the touch-sensitive user interface, a plurality of predefined suggestions as candidates for the data entry, wherein the predefined suggestions are customized for one of: the healthcare professional or a patient, and wherein the plurality of predefined suggestions are previously hidden, and an appearance of the predefined suggestions is triggered in response to the detecting the click of the text input field and without using the virtual keyboard, wherein the displaying further comprises: assigning a respective rank to each of the plurality of predefined suggestions according to a one or more predetermined criteria including a frequency of past use of each of the predefined suggestions; and displaying the plurality of predefined suggestions according to their respective ranks; detecting, via the touch-sensitive user interface, a selection of one of the plurality of predefined suggestions by detecting a touch of the region of the touch-sensitive user interface made by the healthcare professional; automatically entering the selected predefined suggestion as the data entry in the text input field without the use of the virtual keyboard; and electronically transmitting programming instructions to a pulse generator, the programming instructions specifying stimulation parameters that include one or more of: stimulation pulse amplitude, stimulation pulse frequency, stimulation pulse width, electrode polarity, and electrode combination; a pulse generator configured to: receive the programming instructions; and generate electrical pulses as a part of the electrical stimulation therapy based on the received programming instructions.
14. The medical system of claim 13 , wherein the steps further comprise: generating a list of popular data entries; saving the list of popular data entries in an electronic memory storage; and selecting at least a subset of the list of popular data entries to be displayed as the plurality of predefined suggestions.