Jonathan Adiri (born 1982) is an

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digital healthcare entrepreneur and an advisor to former

Israeli president The president of the State of Israel ( he, נְשִׂיא מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or he, נְשִׂיא הַמְדִינָה, Nesi HaMedina, President of the State) is the head of state of Israel. The posi ...

Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of ...

Biography

Jonathan Adiri studied at the

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (C ...

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

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. He graduated

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in 2006.

Public service career

From 2005-2008, Adiri was Senior Policy Consultant for the

Reut Institute The Reut Group (formerly known as the Reut Institute) is a non-profit policy think tank and Israeli lobby organization in Tel Aviv. It was founded by Gidi Grinstein in January 2004 to provide decision-support to Israeli policymakers. The Reut I ...

, 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

Singularity University Singularity Education Group (using the public names Singularity Group, Singularity University or SingularityU) is an American company that offers executive educational programs, a business incubator, and business consultancy services. Although ...

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

Business career

Adiri is the founder of

Healthy.io Healthy.io is a health care 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 det ...

, a

digital healthcare Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informati ...

start-up leveraging smartphone and

cloud technology Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mult ...

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

Designit Designit (imperative mood, meaning 'design it' and pronounced 'dɪˈzʌɪn ɪt') is an international strategic design firm founded in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1991 by Anders Geert Jensen and Mikal Hallstrup. In 1994, David Fellah joined the company as e ...

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 Fortune Magazine's

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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'',

International Institute for Counter-Terrorism The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) is a conservative Israeli think tank founded in 1996 and located at Reichman University, in Herzliya, Israel. Activities According to ''Foreign Affairs'', ICT presents a conservative Israeli ...

, 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

Young Global Leader Forum of Young Global Leaders, or Young Global Leaders (YGL), was created by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum. The YGL, a non-profit organization managed from Geneva, Switzerland, is under the supervision of the Swiss government ...

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

The Marker ''TheMarker'' ( he, דה-מרקר) is a Hebrew-language daily business newspaper published by the Haaretz group in Israel. ''TheMarker'' was founded in 1999 by journalist and entrepreneur Guy Rolnik along with Haaretz group and U.S.-based invest ...

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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Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

Salim Ismail Salim Ismail (born May 17, 1965 in Hyderabad, India) is an Indo-Canadian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, speaker, and technology strategist. He is the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and lead author of ''Expon ...

Health in An Age of Continuous RevolutionMed in Israel
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