Framework overlap

Does ISO 15189:2022 cover ISO/IEC 38500:2024?

You hold ISO 15189:2022 and have been told to do ISO/IEC 38500:2024. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

11% of ISO/IEC 38500:2024 you already have

ISO 15189:2022 already covers about 11% of ISO/IEC 38500:2024, leaving 34 of 38 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 2 Likely covered 2 New work 34

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 15189:2022 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

38500-3.1
Principle 1: Responsibility
38500-3.10
Information Security Governance
38500-3.11
Data Governance
38500-3.12
Third-Party and Supply Chain Governance
38500-3.13
Innovation and Emerging Technology
38500-3.14
Sustainability and ESG of IT
38500-3.15
Resilience and Continuity
38500-3.16
Value and Benefits Realisation
38500-3.17
Stakeholder Engagement and Transparency
38500-3.18
Governance Review and Continuous Improvement
38500-3.2
Principle 2: Strategy
38500-3.3
Principle 3: Acquisition
38500-3.4
Principle 4: Performance
38500-3.5
Principle 5: Conformance
38500-3.6
Principle 6: Human Behaviour
38500-3.7
Evaluate Task
38500-3.8
Direct Task
38500-3.9
Monitor Task
38500-4.1
Governance model overview
38500-4.2
Evaluate
38500-4.3
Direct
38500-4.4
Monitor
38500-5.12
Ethical behaviour
38500-5.2
Value generation
38500-5.3
Strategy
38500-5.4
Oversight
38500-5.5
Accountability
38500-5.6
Stakeholder engagement
38500-5.7
Leadership
38500-5.8
Data and decisions
38500-6.2
Acquisition principle application
38500-6.3
Performance principle application
38500-6.4
Conformance principle application
38500-6.5
Human behaviour principle application
Show the 4 you already have
38500-5.9
Risk governance
38500-6.1
Responsibility principle application
38500-5.10
Social responsibility
38500-5.11
Viability and performance over time

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 15189:2022 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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