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Many have asked me, “Why the name Blackbox Healthcare Solutions? What is a blackbox, anyway?” Well, trusty Google University tells me that a black box is a “flight recorder that records the performance and condition of an aircraft in flight.” How about Wikipedia Britannica? Always faithful and truthful Wikipedia tells me that a black box or flight data recorder “preserves the recent history of a flight through the recording of dozens of parameters collected several times per second.”
Where my explanation can safely land with my extensive academic research is that the purpose of a black box is to assist and facilitate in the investigation of aeronautical incidents. These investigations are to improve the flight industry so that severe mishaps don’t happen. Black boxes are also used to pull data regarding the flights in order to be utilized for industry improvements in things like airplane fuel efficiency. In short, a black box device takes data from multiple different sources and stores it for any future need. It quantifies the data coupled with the cockpit voice recorder to tell a story.
