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by rtrivedi 4155 days ago
The registered emergency rooms are catalogued on the medicare website (medicare.gov). The government has a list of all the emergency rooms in the USA. They also do a survey of each hospital periodically to keep there data up to date.

Unfortunately, these updates aren't in real time. I'm hoping I can provide people live data through my app through a feedback/reporting mechanism. It took a fair bit of time to extract all the data available and I had to do some aggregation myself.

The app doesn't yet include a notification centre widget but that's a great idea! I'm putting that on the list of potential feature adds :). Thank you!

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  > to keep there data up to date
Should be "their data". You should also fix this in the app description: should be "about what their options are", not "about what there options are".
Thanks. Fixed in the app description.
Where are you keeping the data that you've compiled? Are you using Parse?