Buoy Health

Buoy Health is a company that offers an online source that helps diagnose symptoms for patients and also searches for cures. The company was founded in 2014 by Adam Lathram, Andrew Le, Eddie Reyes, and Nathanael Ren, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The online medical source is an artificial intelligent algorithm that utilizes medical data to help assert the diagnosis to patients. The service is delivered through the form of a conversation between patient and AI which is analyzing symptoms and figuring out where to go and what to do for the patient. Machine learning helps propel the artificial intelligence to deliver a more accurate analysis of the patient symptoms. The goal of the company is to help provide the safest possible diagnosis to those seeking medical opinions online.

The system operates using past medical data to deliver an answer that matches patient descriptions, searching through thousands of clinical papers in real-time for each answer a patient gives. After a patient is diagnosed the system remembers the results and uses that with future patients. Buoy Health has millions of users and sees patients every 13 seconds, training the AI to be more accurate each time.