National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS)

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking to require some hospitals to participate in its National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), the nation's principal system for tracking consumer product-related injuries. Currently relying on manual review and coding of medical records from roughly 70 of the nation's more than 5,000 hospital emergency departments, the agency has announced that it will expand its surveillance network across all 50 states and to about 100 hospitals and health systems. Under the updated program, NEISS-R would exchange data with participating hospitals through federally designated Qualified Health Information Networks in an effort to strengthen the CPSC’s ability to detect product hazards.  It would search for [...]