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When I first saw the internet I was astonished at its potential. Having a newsprint publishing background, I was able to quickly understand that it was only a matter of time when having a website would n

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

ot be a choice decision, but a mandatory one if a business was going to compete in their marketplace, whether it be local, statewide, national, or worldwide.

At that time I was the Marketing Director for

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

Examples of combination products may in

a successful 7 figure plus a year remodeling construction firm. We handled all of our marketing in house, producing all of our promotional materials that was anchored by our own Home Improvement Monthly

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

Newspaper which was delivered to the driveways of 10,000 single-family homes each month.

After recognizing the potential of the internet I was able to see the necessity of our firm expanding to the inter

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

et. Keeping with our established policy of in house marketing production, we elected to produce our own website. Believing in doing so, it would provide us with the same flexibility of our newspaper. The

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

Combination pro

roblem, however, was none of us knew anything, whatsoever, about producing and maintaining website. How bad could the learning curve be anyways?

To cut a long story short, I, after a considerable learni

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

ng curve, was able to accomplish my goal of becoming a webmaster learning 5 different programming languages. In fact I enjoyed it so much I became a freelance web designer and have design a considerable

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

umber of sites requiring a varying degree of skill levels from the simple five page site to complicated community portals.

The sad truth, however, is that with each passing day, the need for the freelanc

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

e web designer is diminishing as technology advances. Recently I read a blog post somewhere which was specifically challenging the need for a designer at all.

The author, a successful consultant in his

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

ield, stated that after several years of frustration with finding and maintaining a designer he could depend on, he researched the possibility of managing his own site making use of one of the many open s

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

urce content management system (CMS) that are out there. The entire article was concerning the fact that not only was he able to locate a CMS which met all his needs and more, but how with a minimum lear

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

Following aspects would a

ning curve he was able to produce a quality site for more flexible and interactive that what he had receive from the designer.

Having made use of several of the open source scripts out there in my develo

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ment, I had little to do but to agree with the author. In fact, in my own design business I have gone almost exclusively to using open source programs for my clients.

For the same money charged, I am ab

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

le to provide my clients with a far more effective and interactive site. In fact, being CSS based and template driven, the majority of my income now a days is derived from training office personal to adm

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

nister the site in house, which is how I got started in the business in the first place.

Additionally, as the ability to store more and more information on the head of a pin increases, web hosting compan

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

es are being forced to develop and offer more and more point and click web development tools designed specifically for assisting the business to be able to produce and publish their site in house to attra

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ct and maintain business.

The writing is on the wall. While there will always be a need for Freelance Designers because there will always be those businesses who have no interests in managing their site

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

in house, with the ease of all of the point and click development out there, with more and more coming out everyday, the market is shrinking daily.

My philosophy is simple… if you can’t beat them, join t

.

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

hem. While I don’t expect my business to fall of the face of the earth tomorrow, I have do recognize the need to shift emphasis from primarily designing sites to primarily counseling and training busines

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

es to maintain and administer their own site in house.

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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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