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The NextPen Voice, developed by Anoto and NextGen Healthcare, enables clinicians to capture, store and convert voice and handwriting into structured data for entry into a patient's medical record.

Eleven emerging companies will pitch mobile-clinical integration platforms, personal genomics and clinical research technologies, among others.

Physicians are taking a more active role in helping patients battle obesity - and turning to mHealth in particular - in trying to convince consumers to lose weight. But it isn't as easy as recommending an app or texting the number of calories in a Twinkie.

With the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices, it's only natural that mHealth apps will play a key role in the changing healthcare landscape. With that in mind, the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics has put together this infographic exploring the present - and future - state of mHealth apps.