ISMICS (the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery) has selected HEARTio as the winner of its annual innovation competition. Though the presentation was virtual this time around due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HEARTio is invited to attend the annual ISMICS meeting in Warsaw, Poland in 2021 to give an update about the progress of HEARTio. We thank Dr. Valavanur A. Subramanian and everyone else who had a hand in making this possible.