ISO 9000 the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and some changes intended to improve consistency with ISO 14001:2004. There were no new requirements. For example, in ISO 9001:2008, a quality management system being upgraded just needs to be checked to see if it is following the clarifications introduced in the amended version. ISO 9001 is supplemented directly by two other standards of the family: Other standards, like ISO 19011 and the ISO 10000 series, may also be used for specific parts of the quality system. In 2012, ISO TC 176 - responsible for ISO 9001 development - celebrated 25 years of implementing
ISO 15189 section on laboratory information management. ISO 15189 ISO 15189 Medical laboratories — Requirements for quality and competence is an international standard that specifies the quality management system requirements particular to medical laboratories. The standard was developed by the International Organisation for Standardization's Technical Committee 212 (ISO/TC 212). ISO/TC 212 assigned ISO 15189 to a working group to prepare the standard based on the details of ISO/IEC 17025:1999 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories". This working group included provision of advice to medical laboratory users, including specifics on the collection of patient samples, the interpretation of test