Jonathan Adiri Explained

Jonathan Adiri
Office:	Advisor President of Israel
President:	Shimon Peres
Term Start:	April 2008
Term End:	January 2011
Birth Date:	February 12, 1982
Birth Place:	Herzliya
Alma Mater:	Singularity University Tel Aviv University Open University of Israel

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

Biography

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

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

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

Published work

• Terror in the Court: Counter-Terrorism and Judicial Power in the Israeli Case Study, Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review (Vol.1, 2008)^{[28] [29]}
• Counter Terror Warfare: The Judicial Front, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, 01/07/2005^[30]
• 5 Tips for Health-Tech Entrepreneurs, VentureBeat 01/10/2016^[31]

Awards and recognition

• Gifted Citizen Award, Ciudad De Las Ideas Conference 2013^[32]
• Davos World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2012^[33]
• TIME Magazine's "The 50 Most Influential People in Health Care of 2018"
• Fortune Magazine's "40/40 in Healthcare 2020"

See also

• Economy of Israel
• Digital Healthcare

External links

• Web site: The CNBC Debate Davos 2017 Healthcare Part 2/3 . .
• Point, click, treat, The rise of the medical selfie, The Economist
• Tech set to transform $3 trillion health care industry, CNBC
• Like Google: Grand Price of Israeli start-up, The Marker
• The next revolutionary medical instrument? Your smartphone, WIRED
• The Future of Health Care Technology, CNBC
• Healthy.io chief executive Yonatan Adiri on what makes Israel a good place for medical technology companies, Financial Times
• Israeli app uses smartphone camera to make medical diagnoses, Yahoo Finance
• Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it), Salim Ismail
• Health in An Age of Continuous Revolution, Med in Israel 2013
• Vecteurs D'Innovation ASI Genève: Now ! Vecteurs d’innovation 2013

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=z3OVyjtXNrsC&dq=jonathan+adiri&pg=PT96 The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy, George Gilder
2. News: Israel's medical pioneers treat depression with magnets. Ahmed. Murad. 2016-03-22. Financial Times. 0307-1766. 2016-03-22.
3. http://reut-institute.org/en/Content.aspx?Page=Former Reut Alumni Network
4. Web site: China's Leap Forward in Digital Medicine. 2015-03-30. BloombergView. 2016-03-21.
5. Web site: Greetings From Future Camp. Popular Science. 15 January 2010 . 2016-03-21.
6. News: יהונתן אדירי רק בן 27 וכבר מייעץ לשמעון פרס: "בית הנשיא הוא כמו קרן הון סיכון". שטרקמן. רותם. 2009-06-26. TheMarker. 2016-03-21.
7. Web site: Singularity University Names Graduate Summer Program Students. Marketwire. 2016-03-21.
8. News: Singular Sensations. Grimland. Guy. 2010-08-13. Haaretz. en. 2016-03-21.
9. News: Singularity University: the school for changing the world — in pictures. 2009-09-03. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077. 2016-03-21.
10. Web site: At Singularity University, tech is seen as savior. The San Diego Union-Tribune. 29 August 2009 . 2016-03-21.
11. News: טום פיטרס: "ג'ובס היה שמוק - לא ממליץ לאף מנהל לחקות אותו". חרותי-סובר. טלי. 2012-05-22. TheMarker. 2016-03-21.
12. Web site: Microsoft Ventures Academy. Meetup. 2016-03-22.
13. Web site: What can technology do for global health?. World Economic Forum. 2016-03-22.
14. Web site: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 Programme.
15. Web site: Healthy.IO. healthy.io. 2016-03-21.
16. News: OwnHealth של יהונתן אדירי ו-mirOculus זכו במקום הראשון בתחרות סטארט-אפים בד' אמריקה. הירשאוגה. אור. 2013-11-11. TheMarker. 2016-03-21.
17. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/israeli-app-uses-smartphone-camera-to-make-medical-diagnoses-165028077.html Israeli app uses smartphone camera to make medical diagnoses
18. Web site: Why We Are So Optimistic About Israel. aleph.vc. 2016-03-22.
19. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3770207,00.html Mobile Urinalysis Startup Healthy.io Raises $60 Million
20. Web site: Technology Pioneers 2016 - World Economic Forum. widgets.weforum.org. 2016-09-29.
21. Web site: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 List of Technology Pioneers. World Economic Fourm. March 13, 2017.
22. Web site: Designit and OwnHealth hack mHealth. Designit. 2016-03-21.
23. Web site: The First Mobile Healthcare Design Hackathon in Israel — Designit TLV. Designit TLV. en-US. 2016-03-21.
24. Web site: 'The innovation hubs of Tel Aviv & Ramallah': part two of WIRED's Holy Land documentary.
25. Web site: 'The power of fantasy': part three of WIRED's Holy Land documentary.
26. Web site: Healthy.io, Israeli maker of smartphone urinalysis tech, buys its largest U.S. rival. Farr. Christina. 2020-06-26. CNBC. 2020-06-27.
27. Web site: Fortune 2020 40 under 40 in Health - Yonatan Adiri. Fortune. 2020-09-03.
28. Web site: Terror in the Court: Counter-Terrorism and Judicial Power in the Israeli Case Study Professional Pieces 1 Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 2008. heinonline.org. 2016-03-21.
29. Book: Peabody, Bruce. The Politics of Judicial Independence: Courts, Politics, and the Public. 2011-01-01. JHU Press. 9780801897719. en.
30. Web site: Counter Terror Warfare: The Judicial Front. www.ict.org.il. 2016-03-21.
31. Web site: 5 tips for health-tech entrepreneurs. VentureBeat. 2016-03-22.
32. Web site: Gifted Citizen — Yonatan Adiri de 31 años, ganador de... Facebook. www.facebook.com. 2016-03-21.
33. Web site: Jonathan Adiri World Economic Forum. World Economic Forum. 2016-03-21.