Jonathan Adiri (; born 1982) is an Israeli digital healthcare entrepreneur and an advisor to former

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Education

Jonathan Adiri studied at the

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from the age of 14 and graduated in 2000 with a BA in Political Science and International Relations. Adiri earned his MA in Political Science and Law from

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. He graduated

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in 2006.

Public service career

From 2005-2008, Adiri was Senior Policy Consultant for the Reut Institute, where he focused on national security. Adiri was appointed the first Chief Technology Officer for an Israeli President under President Shimon Peres, from 2008 - 2011. During his tenure, he devised a policy of technological diplomacy, forging a set of global collaborations in the water, space, agro, and biomedical fields. These collaborations helped enhance Israeli technology exports by more than $3.3 billion. While serving as Chief Technology Officer for President Peres, Adiri was a member of the inaugural class of

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, where he was elected class president. Adiri is a 2012

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Young Global Leader. He was a panelist on the 'Rebooting Healthcare' session at the 2016 conference in

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and on the 'Combating Rising Insecurity and Inquality' discussion at the 2017 conference.

Business career

Adiri is the founder of Healthy.io, a

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start-up leveraging smartphone and

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to offer access to the benefits of color-based healthcare and medical imaging. The app can help doctors diagnose patients using images from a smartphone. Healthy.io makes kits for home urine test for infections, chronic illnesses and pregnancy-related complications through a mobile app. Patients use their smartphone camera to scan a dipstick and the app uses computer vision and artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze chemical color changes. The company was identified as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2016 and 2017 The international design firm

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partnered with Healthy.io to host the first mobile healthcare design hackathon in January 2014. Healthy.io won the Ciudad De Las Ideas Gift Citizen award in 2013. Adiri and Healthy.io were featured on two episodes of

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Magazine's docuserie
'Future Cities'
'The innovation hubs of Tel Aviv & Ramallah' and 'The power of fantasy'. In June 2020 Healthy.io acquired the American startup inui Health, formerly known as Scanadu. In September 2020, Adiri was selected to

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list.

Published work

*''Terror in the Court: Counter-Terrorism and Judicial Power in the Israeli Case Study'', Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review (Vol.1, 2008) *''Counter Terror Warfare: The Judicial Front'',

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, 01/07/2005 *''5 Tips for Health-Tech Entrepreneurs'',

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01/10/2016

Awards and recognition

*Gifted Citizen Award, Ciudad De Las Ideas Conference 2013 *Davos

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2012 *TIME Magazine's
The 50 Most Influential People in Health Care of 2018
*Fortune Magazine's
40/40 in Healthcare 2020

References

External links

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Point, click, treat, The rise of the medical selfie

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Tech set to transform $3 trillion health care industry

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Like Google: Grand Price of Israeli start-up

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The next revolutionary medical instrument? Your smartphone

The Future of Health Care Technology

Healthy.io chief executive Yonatan Adiri on what makes Israel a good place for medical technology companies

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Israeli app uses smartphone camera to make medical diagnoses

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Health in An Age of Continuous RevolutionMed in Israel
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