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I still see so many people handing out business cards advertising their free-mail account as their email address, when in fact they do already have their own website (I know this becaus

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

e it is printed right below or next to their email address). In other words, they have already registered a domain name and for example, they may have a website address of www.bobsbusin

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ess.com.au, and they are still using an email address of bobsbusiness@hotmail.com (or another one of the free-mail providers). Their email address could be bob@bobsbusiness.com.au, or s

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ales@bobsbusiness.com.au with no extra expense and quite a few added benefits.

I’ve thought about the possibilities (and listed them below) of why this is the case and I’m quite intere

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

sted to see if these are in fact true. In addition to that I’ve included some suggestions on the benefits of changing your email address over to your own domain name.

Possible reasons

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

for businesses still using a free-mail account:

• They started using the account long before their domain name was registered and therefore:

* Don’t want to change their addr

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

ess

* Think it is too difficult to change their address

* Don’t have the time to worry about it

• Aren’t aware that their web hosting provider offers email accounts

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

included with their website hosting

• Think that the space quota given by their free account is bigger than their hosting provider, so they don’t want to move

• Tried it, but too dif

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ficult to use the email service offered by their hosting provider, or they are just used to the free account’s interface and possibly prefer it

Suggestions and benefits on why (and how

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

) to make the change:

• Find out how many email accounts are included with your web hosting service (if it’s not enough, have a look around for a hosting provider with enough accounts

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

o suit your needs)

• Find out what web interface email service they offer? There are many easy to use interfaces similar, if not better than your current free-mail provider’s

• A bett

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

er option than the above web interface option is to setup Microsoft Outlook, Entourage on your Mac or another email software program to automatically check your email hosted by your web

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

hosting provider. Doing it this way negates the reason for logging into the web interface all the time. And yes, you still maintain the ability to access a web interface when you’re aw

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ay from your own PC. Your hosting provider will easily be able to help you set this up

• Another benefit of using Outlook or a similar option is the fact that you’re not reliant on a s

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

et space quota anymore. Your emails will now be stored on your PC

• You can (in most cases) automatically forward your old email account to the new one and therefore slowly phase out t

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

hat account. Or, for a small annual fee (as with hotmail), also receive emails from this account to Outlook (you will only need to do this for a few months until everyone knows your new

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

address). This way, whenever you reply to an email sent to your old address it will show up as the new address to the recipient

• Once you’ve changed over, you will be advertising you

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

r business name every time you give out your email address

• Get the email address you want and manage staff email better, instead of having bobsbusiness@hotmail.com or bob12345@hotmai

.

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

l.com, you can have numerous email accounts going directly to the correct staff member’s computers

• Looks more professional

• Easier for your customers to remember

These are just so

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

me of the benefits of setting up email accounts using your existing domain. Have a look on your web hosting providers’ website and see what they have to offer. Go ahead, make the change

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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