Jonathan Adiri | |
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| Advisor President of Israel | |
| In office April 2008 –January 2011 | |
| President | Shimon Peres |
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| Born | February 12,1982 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]
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.
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]
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]
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