The Consumer Product Safety Commission is overhauling how hospitals track and report consumer product-related injuries, moving to a system that pulls data automatically from patients’ electronic health records, Politico reported July 21.
The updated system, called NEISS-R, replaces a manually coded process the CPSC has used since 1972. Starting in 2027, it will flag product safety issues in near real-time instead of relying on manual data entry, according to CPSC Acting Chair Peter Feldman.
The current system draws injury data from 70 hospitals across 36 states. NEISS-R will expand that sample to 100 hospitals across all 50 states, with the ability to scale up to more than 5,000 hospitals to detect rare or emerging hazards.
The CPSC oversees safety for most consumer products sold to American households, excluding food, drugs, cosmetics, firearms and pesticides. Its injury surveillance system tracks incidents tied to children’s toys, power tools, kitchen appliances, clothing and other everyday products.
The agency expects the new system to be fully operational by early 2027 and projects it will cut annual operating costs from $9.4 million to $3 million.
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