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You probably have heard all these terms an awful lot lately. You wonder about what these technologies do? What value to they provide? If you aren't up to speed on these new applicati

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

ons and how they are impacting retail online interaction then read this brief further.

Will these technologies impact you? To be honest, it's too early to tell - but awareness drives

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

Examples of combination products may in

innovation and maybe your team will develop an idea/application that truly changes a portion of your eCommerce business.

Here's the rundown:

Blogs

What it is:

Probably the most we

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

l known of the three, blogs allow everyday people to quickly develop a website and distribute any type of content that they desire. Many web entrepreneurs use this functionality to dev

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

elop online stores within niche markets, while using search popularity to beat out larger retailers on the specific terms within the market.

Where Blogs make make sense is within targ

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

Combination pro

ted online communities. Certain blog authors develop a large base of specific visitors, hence the site becomes a target market for viral marketing. By integrating your brand image wi

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

thin the site experience at that SPECIFIC blog, you as an online marketer are able to truly segment your marketing PRIOR to converting someone as a customer.

Should you care:

If you

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

have a very unique value proposition, or sell to a very specific or high-value customer segment, blogs can be a great way to increase overall brand awareness. You can better connect w

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

th your customers and provide detail into the current sales/promotions that you are providing.

Podcasting

What it is:

Pocasting should be just called mobile video broadcasting - App

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

le's marketing/development team did a great job with branding their device to a type of emerging media! Similar to traditional radio and television, mobile video broadcasting delivers

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

branded content in either a paid/free environment, on someone's mobile MP3 player (Apple only does video currently, but that will change shortly). Retailers can use this communication

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

Following aspects would a

channel to further connect to their customers with promotional events, while transmitting specialty programming to meet an interest need.

Should you care:

Not really. Until video p

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

odcasting penetration increases, it's still a limited channel for advertising. The best application available right now would be an online content segment that is digitally delivered

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

o an opt-in list. As technology advances, you can potentially do this from your current opt-in page from your website and not from Apple's iTunes platform.

RSS

RSS stands for Real S

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

imple Syndication and is a method for electronic content distribution. RSS is transmitted via the internet, but what makes it unique is that no downloading efforts are needed by the e

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

d receiver of the content. It streams instateneously. Consumers can have news readers on their computers, either integrated into an emal client, or an aggregated web application such

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

as News Gator, and are able to get information relating to their interests.

Already gaining steam in the travel industry and within comparison shopping engines, RSS seems to be a val

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

uable way to push news, offers, and infomrmation to customers. Travel companies are able to provide a streaming supply of last minute airfare offers to their customer segments, withou

.

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

that customer having to open an email or visit a webpage.

Should you care:

Depends on the nature of your business. Do you consistently offer new prices? Do you get new pieces to y

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

our assortment consistently? Do you have a customer base that is extremely loyal that you want to reach out to with messaging? If so, RSS may another channel to help build your brand

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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