CPSC Modernizes Decades-Old Injury Surveillance System to Protect More Americans, Faster

NEISS-R will expand nationwide coverage, accelerate hazard detection, and strengthen privacy protections

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today announced a significant modernization of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), the nation's principal system for tracking consumer product-related injuries. This effort is expected to become fully effective by the beginning of 2027. 

For more than five decades, NEISS served as an important source of consumer product injury data. Designed in 1972 for a paper-record era, the system relied on labor-intensive manual review and coding of medical records from roughly 70 of the nation's more than 5,000 hospital emergency departments, leaving 14 states without participating hospitals. Those limitations restricted the system's geographic reach, slowed analysis, and reduced the Commission's ability to identify rare and rapidly emerging product hazards.  

The modernized system—NEISS-Remodel, or NEISS-R— is being implemented to replace that outdated model with secure, standardized electronic data exchange, broader geographic representation, and significantly faster injury surveillance. 

Nationwide coverage for the first time. NEISS-R will expand the surveillance network across all 50 states, adding hospitals in Alaska, Hawaii, the Mountain West, and northern states that were previously underrepresented or not represented at all. This more geographically balanced sample will strengthen the Commission's ability to detect product hazards unique to particular regions and improve the statistical reliability of the nation's injury data.