{{Short description|Digital health care service provider}} {{Infobox company | name = Healthy.io | logo = Logo_Healthy.io.svg | type = Private | traded_as = | industry = Health technology | founded = {{start date and age|2013}} | founders = Yonatan Adiri<ref name=FTKuchler1>{{cite news |last1=Kuchler |first1=Hannah |title=The Israeli start-up's app-based urine tests point to wider diagnostic potential and savings for health services |url=https://www.ft.com/content/a2389482-6274-11ea-abcc-910c5b38d9ed |accessdate=10 August 2020 |agency=Financial Times |date=30 March 2020}}</ref> | hq_location_city = Boston, London, Tel Aviv | hq_location_country = | area_served = US, UK, Israel | key_people = Yonatan Adiri, CEO<br/>Ido Omer, Chief Scientist<br/>Ron Zohar, Chief Product Officer | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | num_employees = | owner = | subsidiaries = | website = {{URL|healthy.io}} | footnotes = }} '''Healthy.io''' is a health care company offering remote clinical testing and services enabled by smartphone technology.<ref name=CNBCFarr1>{{cite news |last1=Farr |first1=Christina |title=Healthy.io, maker of a 'medical selfie,' is part of the new generation of Israeli health-tech companies |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/22/healthyio-is-part-of-new-generation-of-israeli-health-tech-companies.html |accessdate=10 August 2020 |agency=CNBC |date=22 June 2020}}</ref><ref name=Economist>{{cite news |title=Pictures of health; Smartphone diagnostics |url=https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/03/11/the-rise-of-the-medical-selfie |accessdate=10 August 2020 |agency=The Economist |date=11 March 2017}}</ref> Launched in 2013 by founder and CEO Yonatan Adiri,<ref name=CNBCFarr1/> the company uses smartphones to enable at-home diagnostics testing for the detection of signs of kidney disease, urinary tract infections, and pregnancy complications.<ref name=MIT>{{cite news |last1=Kalman |first1=Matthew |title=A medical app uses your smartphone's camera to carry out lab tests at home |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/24/135980/a-medical-app-uses-your-smartphones-camera-to-carry-out-lab-tests-at-home/ |accessdate=12 August 2020 |agency=MIT Technology Review |date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=CNBCIoannou>{{cite news |last1=Ioannou |first1=Lori |title=How an Israeli start-up turned the cellphone into a testing lab for kidney disease |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/israeli-startup-turns-cellphone-into-a-testing-lab-for-kidney-disease.html?&qsearchterm=healthy.io |accessdate=13 August 2020 |agency=CNBC |date=2 February 2019}}</ref> Its digital wound management solution is used by medical personnel to measure and track wounds using a smartphone.<ref name=FTKuchler1>{{cite news |last1=Kuchler |first1=Hannah |title=The Israeli start-up's app-based urine tests point to wider diagnostic potential and savings for health services |url=https://www.ft.com/content/a2389482-6274-11ea-abcc-910c5b38d9ed |accessdate=10 August 2020 |agency=Financial Times |date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
==History==
Healthy.io developed smartphone-enabled products to aid in the early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, urinary tract infections and prenatal care.<ref name=MIT/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Blakeley |first1=Rhys |title=App lets patients test at home for kidney disease |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/app-lets-patients-test-at-home-for-kidney-disease-8gvpd9m59 |access-date=6 October 2020 |agency=The Times |date=5 October 2020}}</ref> Healthy.io’s urinalysis product became the first smartphone-based system to receive Food and Drug Administration clearance as a Class II clinical diagnostic device in 2018.<ref name=MIT/> As part of the FDA approval process of the test to monitor for kidney disease, clinical trials showed the technology had equivalent accuracy to a professional laboratory.<ref name=MIT /> A peer-reviewed study in 2019 found the home-based urinalysis for early detection of kidney disease increased screening rates in patients with hypertension; 89% preferred testing at home.<ref name=BMC>{{cite journal |last1=Leddy |first1=Julia |last2=Green |first2=Jamie A. |last3=Yule |first3=Christina |last4=Molecavage |first4=Juliann |last5=Coresh |first5=Josef |last6=Chang |first6=Alex R. |title=Improving proteinuria screening with mailed smartphone urinalysis testing in previously unscreened patients with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial |journal=BMC Nephrology |date=18 April 2019 |volume=20 |issue=1 |page=132 |doi=10.1186/s12882-019-1324-z |pmid=30999886 |pmc=6471866 |url= |doi-access=free }}</ref> A separate 2019 peer-reviewed study of home urinalysis self-testing amongst diabetic patients determined compliance rates were 72%.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shore |first1=Judith |last2=Green |first2=Michelle |last3=Hardy |first3=Andrew |last4=Livesey |first4=Deborah |title=The compliance and cost-effectiveness of smartphone urinalysis albumin screening for people with diabetes in England |journal=Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research |date=20 August 2019 |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=387–395 |doi=10.1080/14737167.2019.1650024 |pmid=31354065 |s2cid=198967347 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14737167.2019.1650024 |accessdate=10 September 2020|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Doctors in Britain used it in 2020 to monitor patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ranscombe |first1=Peter |title=How diabetes management is adapting amid the COVID-19 pandemic |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(20)30181-9/fulltext |accessdate=12 August 2020 |agency=The Lancet |date=8 July 2020}}</ref><ref name=FastCompanyStav>{{cite news |last1=Dimitropoulos |first1=Stav |title=Can't go to the doctor? You already own a powerful medical device |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90482079/cant-go-to-the-doctor-you-already-own-a-powerful-medical-device?partner=feedburner |accessdate=12 August 2020 |agency=Fast Company |date=27 March 2020}}</ref> The company had raised $95 million in funding as of June 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Israel's Healthy.io raises $60 mln, gets FDA ok for urine test |url=https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/israels-healthy.io-raises-%2460-mln-gets-fda-ok-for-urine-test-2019-09-12 |accessdate=3 September 2020 |publisher=Reuters |date=12 September 2019}}</ref> In June 2020 the company acquired Silicon Valley competitor Inui Health for $9 million.<ref name=CNBCFarr2>{{cite news |last1=Farr |first1=Christina |title=Healthy.io, Israeli maker of smartphone urinalysis tech, buys its largest U.S. rival |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/israels-healthyio-to-buy-inui-health-its-largest-us-competitor.html |accessdate=11 August 2020 |agency=CNBC |date=26 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jerusalem Post Staff |title=Israeli company Healthy.io buys largest American competitor, Inui Health |url=https://www.jpost.com/jpost-tech/israeli-company-healthyio-buys-largest-american-competitor-inui-health-632999 |accessdate=10 September 2020 |publisher=Jerusalem Post |date=28 June 2020}}</ref>
==Products== Healthy.io's digital urinalysis products provide patients with at-home clinical-grade urinalysis.<ref name=Economist/><ref name=MIT/> Users scan the urinalysis dipstick using a smartphone app.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tozzi |first1=John |title=Urine-Testing Startup Healthy.io Raises $60 Million to Expand |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/urine-testing-startup-healthy-io-raises-60-million-to-expand |accessdate=10 August 2020 |agency=Bloomberg |date=11 September 2019}}</ref> The technology then uses machine learning and computer vision techniques to correct the color - taking into account lighting conditions and other variables - to provide an analysis.<ref name=FTKuchler1/><ref name=MIT/> The company's urinalysis products can be used to detect kidney damage, urinary tract infections, and pregnancy complications such as elevated protein levels.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Smartphone-Based Device Approved for Diagnostics |journal=Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology |date=September–October 2018 |volume=52 |issue=5 |page=334 |doi=10.2345/0899-8205-52.5.332 |s2cid=195664205 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=Economist/> In May 2021, a specially-modified version of the company's kidney health test was selected to accompany the Axiom Mission 1 to the International Space Station in early 2022, allowing astronauts in space to measure their kidney function in real time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Benmeleh |first1=Yaacov |title=Israeli Mission to Test Tech for Next Generation of Space Travel |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-05/israeli-mission-to-test-tech-for-next-generation-of-space-travel |accessdate=9 May 2021 |agency=Bloomberg |date=5 May 2021}}</ref> Its wound management product uses a smartphone app, calibration stickers, and web portal to measure and track chronic wounds over time. The app builds a 3D model of the wound for a more accurate assessment. As of 2020, the wound management product was being used by nurses in the U.S. and Britain.<ref>{{cite news |title=2020 CNBC Disruptors: 19. Healthy.io |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/healthy-io-disruptor-50.html |accessdate=19 August 2020 |work=CNBC.com |publisher=CNBC |date=16 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lovett |first1=Laura |title=Healthy.io launches wound care tech in US |url=https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/healthyio-launches-wound-care-tech-us |accessdate=5 October 2020 |agency=MobiHealth News |date=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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