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Main Subject - Telecommuting: Info or Intox?
New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) continue to influence our lives on the professional, economic, social and family levels. As a consequence, we are faced with new values, new relations and new behaviours which we have to adopt or to ad According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product apt to. One of the innovations brought by these technologies -and in front of which we are still perplexed and hesitant- is telecommuting or distance work which is presented as a means to reduce costs and to increase productivity. The fundamental charac ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in eristics of telecommuting are:
a- The place of work is no longer the same, it is distance work. b- There is a new form of organization of work. c- The interactions between the employee and the employer are achieved primarily thanks to the m lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. eans of telecommunications. All experiments in this field show that telecommuting has many advantages and opens new prospects for a better productivity, a better life for the individual and the family. Yet, experts point out that there are still a few dr here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe wbacks. I- Advantages: a- Advantages from the point of view of the telecommuter: decrease of stress and increase of effectiveness. better integration of family life and professional life: telecommuters can better reconcile employment d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro and family life. fewer absences due to family urgencies, mainly for telecommuters with children. reduction of the time wasted in transportation especially in public means of transport. Employees have much more spare time which they cou ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc ld devote to para professional activities (training, studies...) or to valorising leisure activities. decrease of the expenses related to transport, clothing and meals taken outside, thus improvement of the purchasing power and the standard of l easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi fe. increase of autonomy and responsibility. b- Advantages from the point of view of the employer: increase of productivity. possibility of recruitment of high quality employees. reduction of space costs. nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically reduction of costs related to absences and delays. c- Advantages from the point of view of the community: decrease of unemployment rates in less industrialized areas through maintaining people in their regions. reduction of pollution and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ due to road traffic. reduction of traffic jam and road accidents. increase of population stability. reduction of costs of stress-related diseases. II- Disadvantages: a- Disadvantages from the point of view of the telecommut ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi r: possibility of exposure to loneliness. fear of being cut from professional environment (office, colleagues…) difficulty of reconciling family life and professional life for those who do not know how to organize and manage ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a their work well. difficulty in managing time for those who are not well-organized. possibility of negative effects on the career: slowness of promotion, likeliness to be forgotten, neglected… fear of female agents of telecomm dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod ting as a means which might accentuate or revive career disparity with their male colleagues. b- Disadvantages from the point of view of the employer: fear of an excessive independence or loss of control of agents. fear of the changes cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin resulting from the passage to telecommuting: need for changing all work methods and communication with the personnel and the users. fear of novelty and its probable results in general. III- Profile of a good telecommuter: The personality of t tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen e candidate is determining. A good telecommuter is independent and autonomous ; he/ she works with clear objectives and with little supervision. He/ She shows proof of responsibility, reliability, self-discipline and respect of priorities and deadlines. H t? As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel / She generally does not have a direct relationship with the management of human resources or he/ she is able to manage them remotely. To be able to succeed in his/ her work effectively, a telecommuter needs the support of his/ her employer, to remain i ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust n contact with his/ her company or administration and to pursue the goals which are allotted to him/ her by regularly communicating information on the evolution of his/ her own work and that of his/ her collaborators. IV- Conclusion: The possibilities y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products ffered by the NICT in the domain of telecommuting, teletraining and teleconferencing are enormous. Consequently, reflecting seriously on this new flexible method of work is essential in an era where the technological know-how is in constant evolution and . As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de where competitiveness has become more merciless than ever. In the developing countries, it is high time that mentalities evolve and open on the experiences achieved in the domain of telecommuting and teletraining in the developed countries. Governments a elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip e called to combat reactionary tendencies which are opposed systematically to progress and which prevent the others from advancing in this way. They ought to sensitize and to encourage employers to take measures towards the implementation of telecommuting tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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