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Healthy.io
Smartphone clinical diagnostics — first FDA-cleared home urinalysis (Minuteful Kidney) + smartphone wound imaging
Latest event found: 12 Oct 2026 · 8 days ago
Vitality Radar
Pillar Analysis
Strategic Assessment
Strategic Vector
Healthy.io is expanding from smartphone urinalysis into broader home-based kidney and wound diagnostics through payer, provider, pharmaceutical, and public-health partnerships. The April 2025 Labrador Health acquisition indicates a deliberate move to add kidney-diagnostics capability, while the available evidence also points to organizational contraction after prior workforce reductions.
Efficiency Ratio
The company shows strong technology and partnership output relative to its reported 201-500 employee scale, but repeated workforce reductions and inconsistent public funding figures suggest moderate—not exceptional—resource-to-output efficiency.
Evidence Signals
1 negative signalHealthy.io, the Dutch Kidney Foundation, and University Medical Center Groningen launched a smartphone-based chronic kidney disease screening project targeting 15,000 participants.
A trade publication reported that Healthy.io raised $60 million in a third-round financing shortly before the Dutch screening project; the available source does not identify the financing announcement date or primary issuer.
Background · older than 12 months
Healthy.io, Geisinger, and Boehringer Ingelheim reported study findings showing increased albuminuria identification after adding smartphone technology.
Healthy.io acquired Labrador Health to advance at-home kidney diagnostics; the transaction value was undisclosed.
Healthy.io and the National Kidney Foundation partnered to offer free kidney health testing on Capitol Hill.
Healthy.io announced cuts affecting 40 jobs, following a reduction of 70 employees the previous year.
Healthy.io announced a $50 million Series D financing led by Schusterman Family Investments and Aleph.
- About
- Israeli digital-diagnostics company (Healthy.io Ltd.; HQ Tel Aviv, Israel; also Boston and London; founded 2013 by Yonatan Adiri; ~201-500 staff; software / health-tech) that turns a smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device. Its Minuteful urinalysis product was the first smartphone-based system to receive FDA clearance as a Class II diagnostic (2018), used for chronic kidney disease (Minuteful Kidney), UTIs and prenatal care; a companion product digitizes wound assessment via smartphone imaging. Named to TIME's World's Top 50 HealthTech Companies of 2025. Its Minuteful Kidney test was adapted for zero-gravity use and flown to the International Space Station for real-time in-orbit kidney-function testing without sample freezing/return — a proof point for lab-free diagnostics in austere, resource-denied environments. Defense relevance: field-deployable, lab-free urinalysis and remote wound assessment are credible austere/prolonged-field-care tools; Healthy.io is civilian-first (chronic disease, home testing, health plans) with US operations but no defense contract.
- Tags
- #smartphonediagnostics #urinalysis #woundimaging #pointofcare #fda #remotediagnostics #digitalhealth #dualuse