Porter Regional Hospital is the first hospital in northwest Indiana to implant the smallest implantable cardiac monitoring device available – it is inserted just beneath the skin through a small incision of less than 1 cm in the upper left side of the chest . The big impact and benefit for patients is that it replaces the cumbersome daily holter heart device monitor which was wired to the body and interfered with certain activities, especially sleeping, bathing and showering during the study.