Healthy.io is a

health care Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...

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 Inflammation, inflammatory kidney disease and has several types according to the location of the inflammation. Infla ...

urinary tract infections A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects a part of the urinary tract. Lower urinary tract infections may involve the bladder (cystitis) or urethra ( urethritis) while upper urinary tract infections affect the kidney (pye ...

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

wounds A wound is any disruption of or damage to living tissue, such as skin, mucous membranes, or organs. Wounds can either be the sudden result of direct trauma (mechanical, thermal, chemical), or can develop slowly over time due to underlying diseas ...

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 long-term kidney disease, defined by the sustained presence of abnormal kidney function and/or abnormal kidney structure. To meet criteria for CKD, the abnormalities must be present for at least three mo ...

urinary tract infection A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects a part of the urinary tract. Lower urinary tract infections may involve the bladder (cystitis) or urethra (urethritis) while upper urinary tract infections affect the kidney (pyel ...

s and

prenatal care Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare for pregnant individuals. It is provided in the form of medical checkups and healthy lifestyle recommendations for the pregnant person. Antenatal care also consists of ...

. Healthy.io’s

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

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 study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

and

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

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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