LIS vs LIMS: Two Words, Four Desks, One Expensive Mistake
LIS and LIMS are not two names for the same thing, and they are not a naming quibble either. They describe systems built around two different objects, a patient and a sample, and the words follow the desk you are standing at rather than the software you are looking at.
The cost of trading them shows up at go-live, not in a demo. A research-configured system arriving in a clinical laboratory can lack external ordering, insurance billing and a historical blood type, and none of those absences are visible in a feature grid. This covers what each system is, why two labs use different words for the same moment, who is actually allowed to release a result under each regime, and the question to ask a vendor that the acronym cannot answer.
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