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Several health systems across the U.S. — including Northwestern Medicine — are gearing up to try a new way of drawing blood: using a robot.

Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The process takes about two minutes and has a 95% success rate on the first attempt.

The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago.

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