Healthy.io is a

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health ...

company offering remote clinical testing and services enabled by smartphone technology. Launched in 2013 by founder and CEO Yonatan Adiri, the company uses smartphones to enable at-home diagnostics testing for the detection of signs of

kidney disease Kidney disease, or renal disease, technically referred to as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is an inflammatory kidney disease and has several types according to the location of the inflammation. Inflammation can ...

urinary tract infections A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects part of the urinary tract. When it affects the lower urinary tract it is known as a bladder infection (cystitis) and when it affects the upper urinary tract it is known as a kidney ...

, and pregnancy complications. Its digital wound management solution is used by medical personnel to measure and track

wounds A wound is a rapid onset of injury that involves lacerated or punctured skin (an ''open'' wound), or a contusion (a ''closed'' wound) from blunt force trauma or compression. In pathology, a ''wound'' is an acute injury that damages the epider ...

using a smartphone.

History

Healthy.io developed smartphone-enabled products to aid in the early diagnosis of

chronic kidney disease Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a type of kidney disease in which a gradual loss of kidney function occurs over a period of months to years. Initially generally no symptoms are seen, but later symptoms may include leg swelling, feeling tired, ...

urinary tract infection A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects part of the urinary tract. When it affects the lower urinary tract it is known as a bladder infection (cystitis) and when it affects the upper urinary tract it is known as a kidne ...

s and

prenatal care Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare. It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as matern ...

. Healthy.io’s

urinalysis Urinalysis, a portmanteau of the words ''urine'' and ''analysis'', is a panel of medical tests that includes physical (macroscopic) examination of the urine, chemical evaluation using urine test strips, and microscopic examination. Macroscopic ...

product became the first smartphone-based system to receive

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clearance as a Class II clinical diagnostic device in 2018. As part of the FDA approval process of the test to monitor for kidney disease, clinical trials showed the technology had equivalent accuracy to a professional laboratory. A peer-reviewed study in 2019 found the home-based urinalysis for early detection of kidney disease increased screening rates in patients with hypertension; 89% preferred testing at home. A separate 2019 peer-reviewed study of home urinalysis self-testing amongst diabetic patients determined compliance rates were 72%. Doctors in Britain used it in 2020 to monitor patients remotely during the

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. The company had raised $95 million in funding as of June 2020. In June 2020 the company acquired Silicon Valley competitor Inui Health for $9 million.

Products

Healthy.io's digital urinalysis products provide patients with at-home clinical-grade urinalysis. Users scan the urinalysis dipstick using a smartphone app. The technology then uses

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and

computer vision Computer vision is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate t ...

techniques to correct the color - taking into account lighting conditions and other variables - to provide an analysis. The company's urinalysis products can be used to detect kidney damage, urinary tract infections, and pregnancy complications such as elevated protein levels. In May 2021, a specially-modified version of the company's kidney health test was selected to accompany the

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to the

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in early 2022, allowing astronauts in space to measure their kidney function in real time. Its wound management product uses a smartphone app, calibration stickers, and web portal to measure and track chronic wounds over time. The app builds a 3D model of the wound for a more accurate assessment. As of 2020, the wound management product was being used by nurses in the U.S. and Britain.

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