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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.

There is a vast difference between sales presentations chock full of a technology's potential and the real world, wherein hospital residents encounter many patients every busy day.

Health organizations may be getting more value from Twitter than Twitter is from them. Despite the regulations and risks, consumer health advertising may be too big an opportunity for Twitter to ignore, now that it's a public company and has to make money.