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Some days, it seems that we are quickly evolving from a digital world where information was THE marketable commodity to a communications market, where new methods of communicating, networking and so

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

cializing are being introduced on a rapid fire basis and are the new consumers of online attention and time. Blogs, wikis, RSS newsfeeds, podcasts, video socialization built around applications like

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

Examples of combination products may in

YouTube...all of these are recently formulated methods of communication that seemingly overnight have developed millions of participants.

One of the networking methodologies that has evolved from

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

Internet architecture is the phenomenon of "social bookmarking." One of the more popular sites is del.icio.us. On this site the notion is that you, the web surfer, share interests with others who h

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

ave web access via your bookmarked URLs. It's the same concept as bookmarking favorites with your browser, but the collection of favorites has a coding system and is shared with others. You build a

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

Combination pro

library of URLs that reflect your interests and that you consider worth visiting. You add a personal "tag" with a keyword that characterizes the site.

You can "subscribe" to tags so that you see ev

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

ery new post with that tag. That in turn can take you to the poster's entire list of favorites which may prove to be a new trove of information for you. del.icio.us allows you to go through the same

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

exercise with podcasts, which are now scattered across the Internet galaxy like asteroids.

Others on the web have access to your library and thus to your personal interests. Utilizing a web based

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

application (in this case, del.icio.us) participants are able to search through sites that others have bookmarked, using not only a standard search term but the tag that has been used to characteriz

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

e the site. Tags form a collective body of URLs and thus, a body of knowledge - and collective access to those tags forms a community of people with common interests. Included in the process is an o

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

ptional personal profile, which provides your email address and allow others to communicate with you personally.

One of the drawbacks to this format is that a tag search is going to get you every c

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

Following aspects would a

ommercial website out there who has laid claim to the same keyword. It takes a lot of scanning and scrolling to find sites that have been tagged by individuals instead of search engines.

There are

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

several platforms out there for social networking. Flickr (www.flickr.com) is a site that uses uploaded photos for networking purposes instead of URLs. www.43places.com is a site where you upload y

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

our travel experiences, travel photos and travel interests along with your profile. Wists (www.wists.com) is a "social shopping" exchange where the bookmarks are all about commercial shopping sites.

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

The level of personal communication allowed by social networking sites is up to you: on 43 Places you can post your photo but refuse personal email. You can also hold the line at public access to y

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

our favorites library on del.icio.us.

Other social bookmarking platforms (or tools) as they are called, include:

Backflip
Blinklist
blogmarks
Conn

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

otea

de.lirio.us

feedmarker

Jots

Lookmarks

Scuttle

unalog

Spurl

Simpy

Wists

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

ahoo! My Web 2.0

They all have an assortment of tricks and widgets that make their sites a little different. Some of them have fairly sophisticated search methods for their subscribe

.

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

d users; some allow you to "bundle" tags for search purposes; most provide lists of the most popular bookmarks and the recent posts. It's all an interesting experiment in 'distance sharing'. Making

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

use of it for professional (research) or personal uses simply requires taking the time to become comfortable with the methodology and then learning how to get maximum usage out of the tagging system

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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