Jonathan Adiri (born 1982) is an Israeli digital healthcare entrepreneur and an advisor to former Israeli president Shimon Peres.[1][2]

Jonathan Adiri
Advisor President of Israel
In office
April 2008 – January 2011
PresidentShimon Peres
Personal details
Born (1982-02-12) February 12, 1982 (age 42)
Herzliya
Alma materSingularity University
Tel Aviv University
Open University of Israel

Biography

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Jonathan Adiri studied at the Open University of Israel 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. He graduated magna cum laude in 2006.

Public service career

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From 2005-2008, Adiri was Senior Policy Consultant for the Reut Institute, where he focused on national security.[3] Adiri was appointed the first Chief Technology Officer for an Israeli President under President Shimon Peres, from 2008 - 2011.[4][5] 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.[6] While serving as Chief Technology Officer for President Peres, Adiri was a member of the inaugural class of Singularity University,[7][8] where he was elected class president.[9][10][11] Adiri is a 2012 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[12] He was a panelist on the 'Rebooting Healthcare' session at the 2016 conference in Davos[13] and on the 'Combating Rising Insecurity and Inquality' discussion at the 2017 conference.[14]

Business career

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Adiri is the founder of Healthy.io,[15] a digital healthcare start-up leveraging smartphone and cloud technology to offer access to the benefits of color-based healthcare and medical imaging.[16] The app can help doctors diagnose patients using images from a smartphone.[17][18] 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.[19] The company was identified as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer[20] in 2016 and 2017[21] The international design firm Designit partnered with Healthy.io to host the first mobile healthcare design hackathon in January 2014.[22][23]

Healthy.io won the Ciudad De Las Ideas Gift Citizen award in 2013.[24] Adiri and Healthy.io were featured on two episodes of WIRED Magazine's docuseries 'Future Cities'; 'The innovation hubs of Tel Aviv & Ramallah'[25] and 'The power of fantasy'.[26] In June 2020 Healthy.io acquired the American startup inui Health, formerly known as Scanadu.[27] In September 2020, Adiri was selected to Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40 list.[28]

Published work

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Awards and recognition

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy, George Gilder
  2. ^ Ahmed, Murad (2016-03-22). "Israel's medical pioneers treat depression with magnets". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  3. ^ Reut Alumni Network
  4. ^ "China's Leap Forward in Digital Medicine". BloombergView. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  5. ^ "Greetings From Future Camp". Popular Science. 15 January 2010. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  6. ^ שטרקמן, רותם (2009-06-26). "יהונתן אדירי רק בן 27 וכבר מייעץ לשמעון פרס: "בית הנשיא הוא כמו קרן הון סיכון"". TheMarker. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  7. ^ "Singularity University Names Graduate Summer Program Students". Marketwire. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  8. ^ Grimland, Guy (2010-08-13). "Singular Sensations". Haaretz. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  9. ^ "Singularity University: the school for changing the world — in pictures". The Guardian. 2009-09-03. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  10. ^ "At Singularity University, tech is seen as savior". The San Diego Union-Tribune. 29 August 2009. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  11. ^ חרותי-סובר, טלי (2012-05-22). "טום פיטרס: "ג'ובס היה שמוק - לא ממליץ לאף מנהל לחקות אותו"". TheMarker. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  12. ^ "Microsoft Ventures Academy". Meetup. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  13. ^ "What can technology do for global health?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  14. ^ "World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 Programme" (PDF).
  15. ^ "Healthy.IO". healthy.io. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  16. ^ הירשאוגה, אור (2013-11-11). "OwnHealth של יהונתן אדירי ו-mirOculus זכו במקום הראשון בתחרות סטארט-אפים בד' אמריקה". TheMarker. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  17. ^ Israeli app uses smartphone camera to make medical diagnoses
  18. ^ "Why We Are So Optimistic About Israel". aleph.vc. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  19. ^ Mobile Urinalysis Startup Healthy.io Raises $60 Million
  20. ^ "Technology Pioneers 2016 - World Economic Forum". widgets.weforum.org. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  21. ^ "World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 List of Technology Pioneers" (PDF). World Economic Fourm. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  22. ^ "Designit and OwnHealth hack mHealth". Designit. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  23. ^ "The First Mobile Healthcare Design Hackathon in Israel — Designit TLV". Designit TLV. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  24. ^ LaCiudaddelasIdeas (2014-03-24), Gifted Citizen 2013 - La Ciudad de las Ideas 2013 "Dangerous Ideas". Parte 2, retrieved 2016-03-21
  25. ^ "'The innovation hubs of Tel Aviv & Ramallah': part two of WIRED's Holy Land documentary".
  26. ^ "'The power of fantasy': part three of WIRED's Holy Land documentary".
  27. ^ Farr, Christina (2020-06-26). "Healthy.io, Israeli maker of smartphone urinalysis tech, buys its largest U.S. rival". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  28. ^ "Fortune 2020 40 under 40 in Health - Yonatan Adiri". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  29. ^ "Terror in the Court: Counter-Terrorism and Judicial Power in the Israeli Case Study Professional Pieces 1 Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 2008". heinonline.org. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  30. ^ Peabody, Bruce (2011-01-01). The Politics of Judicial Independence: Courts, Politics, and the Public. JHU Press. ISBN 9780801897719.
  31. ^ "Counter Terror Warfare: The Judicial Front". www.ict.org.il. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  32. ^ "5 tips for health-tech entrepreneurs". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  33. ^ "Gifted Citizen — Yonatan Adiri de 31 años, ganador de... | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  34. ^ "Jonathan Adiri | World Economic Forum". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
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