Removing healthcare barriers with 3D printing
Med-Tech Innovation March 1, 2022
Cyrille Lecroq, CEO of WeMed spoke to Med-Tech Innovation about how it developed the world’s first additively manufactured connected stethoscope.
First, tell us a bit about WeMed and how you started?
We are a French start-up that specialises in designing devices for telemedicine. WeMed was created with the goal of ensuring that every person receives access to healthcare, by developing telemedical devices that enable healthcare advice and treatment, even when hospitals and doctors’ surgeries are at capacity.
My wife is a nurse who has been working on the front-line throughout the pandemic. She told me first-hand how difficult it has been for healthcare workers to keep up with their patients, which means some patients are being sent home without the...