--- description: Find out why Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor is an honorable mention on TIME's list of the 50 best inventions of 2018. title: A Guardian for Heart Health: Honorable Mention on Best Inventions of 2018 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8759c807488c2d8/69893f2aab6d771c1d6b4317/confirm-rx-best-inventions-2018-281.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 15, 2018 # A Guardian for Heart Health Abbott's Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  _HONORABLE MENTION:_ For those with cardiovascular conditions, keeping tabs on their heart rhythms can alert them to problems or help doctors track their symptoms. But traditional heart monitors have required specialized external hardware. That’s not the case with [Abbott’s Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor](https://www.sjm.com/en/patients/arrhythmias/our-solutions/insertable-cardiac-monitor/confirm-rx-insertable-cardiac-monitor?clset=af584191-45c9-4201-8740-5409f4cf8bdd%3ab20716c1-c2a6-4e4c-844b-d0dd6899eb3a "undefined"), which is implanted just under the skin and syncs up with a smartphone to record users’ heart data and transmit it to medical professionals. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2018/5454852/confirm-rx-insertable-cardiac-monitor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2018/5454852/confirm-rx-insertable-cardiac-monitor/"},"headline":"A Guardian for Heart Health: Honorable Mention on Best Inventions of 2018","datePublished":"2018-11-15T11:42:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:28:23.167Z","description":"Find out why Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor is an honorable mention on TIME's list of the 50 best inventions of 2018.","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2018/5454852/confirm-rx-insertable-cardiac-monitor/","keywords":["best inventions","Best Inventions 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8759c807488c2d8/69893f2aab6d771c1d6b4317/confirm-rx-best-inventions-2018-281.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8759c807488c2d8/69893f2aab6d771c1d6b4317/confirm-rx-best-inventions-2018-281.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2018/5454852/confirm-rx-insertable-cardiac-monitor/","name":"A Guardian for Heart Health: Honorable Mention on Best Inventions of 2018"}}]}] ```