This article is educational, not legal advice. CLIA establishes baseline quality standards for US clinical laboratories; CAP accreditation introduces checklist-driven evidence for many hospital and reference labs.
A credible cloud LIS should expose who changed results, when QC failed, and how instruments were maintained—because inspectors trace findings to records, not slogans.
Pair this reading with our HL7 LIS integration and implementation methodology pages when planning evidence packs for IT and quality teams.