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In this age of information, there is such a plethora of options available to us as consumers. Hence, the emergence of social networks has fast become the norm in most of our lives

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

. Sociologists have scrambled to try to make sense of these. As a technical person, I, too, have struggled to try and make sense of all this new terminology.( I have to confess to

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

Examples of combination products may in

needing to reference the Wikipedia to begin to grasp a lot of these terms I was encountering.) When I think back to the earliest days of the internet and being introduce

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

d to 'Compuserve', I found a megatrend that was yet to reach maturity. I thought it was neat to be able to access all this neat stuff in one place, but, at that time, I didn't se

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

much purpose.

Over the years I have surfed the net, I know that, not unlike others, if I found some really great web site that I found useful, I would just bookmark those in my

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

Combination pro

browser so I could refer back at a later time. That list of bookmarks has long since outgrown it's usefulness. Not because I don't still need that information, but because as the

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

net has grown, so have my options and my appetite for more and different information. I honestly believe that there is no end to what can be found online. I see that I have reache

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

d a point long ago of what we all call 'information overload' and I am certainly not alone. Creators of content for the net, having recognized this phenomenon, have learned to emb

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

ace the concept of the the social network and, moreover, the true value of these entities.

As I recently began to construct a site which I had envisioned years ago, I realized th

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

at I had wanted it to serve a primary function, but that function alone was no longer adequate to provide for the needs of the users that I sought. They needed so much more than w

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

hat I had originally intended to provide, and those needs were constantly changing. It seemed to me as though my concept was already outgrown before I ever started. Looking back,

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

Following aspects would a

I was correct. At that point, I began to try to envision the concept I wanted existing within the framework of something that was beyond my ability to define. This, of course, fru

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

trated me to the point of finally realizing that my idea was just another social network, needing to be established.

That realization was empowering. I needed to build this netwo

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

rk for my entire community, as a resource portal for everything my community is, was, and will become. In essence, I needed to let the users define it's functionality. Certainly,

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

my community was just a microcosm, but no less infinite than any other, it, too, is boundless. I sought to build what became something I termed a community resource portal, becaus

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

e that was it's function. Like a search engine, it searches its own archives. Better than a BLOG alone, it provides interaction, and more effectively than a newscast, its RSS feed

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

supply up-to-the-minute information. Its functionality is vast and ever-changing.To refer to my social network site as something I wanted my end users and members to bookmark was

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

not enough, I would rather they think of it as their online home. While it is just a social network, it's only limitation is what it's users determine, not me. Social networks tr

.

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

uly have a life of their own. Mine just happened to center itself around the ties among members of the local community. I believe that social networks have risen from the need of

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

persons everywhere to establish a social reference point. The reason that they function so effectively is simply that they seek to first satisfy the needs of the core relationship

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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How can the distributor take advantage of existing relationships between Inside Sales/Customer Service personnel and customers? This age-old question has caused managers to implement a variety of approaches in the attempt to tap perceived potential, but many fail and the question persists. Why? Most firms do not have adequate measures installed to determine who does what within an Inside Sales/Customer Service group. For lack of measures, it is not possible for management to define department productivity or level of activity much less individual productivity.

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