As technology becomes more integrated in the healthcare industry, robots are taking on mundane tasks and freeing up hospital personnel to better tend to patients. One of these tasks is drawing blood. It’s proven difficult with clinicians failing 27% of the time when drawing blood from patients without visible veins. Repeated failures increase risk of complications including phlebitis, thrombosis, and infections. Difficulty accessing veins increases procedure time, requires more staff, and costs more than $4 billion a year in the United States alone.
