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Are you considering taking your business bigger? The financial rewards can be massive. Your life will change overnight. If you are, have you considered the rep

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

ercussions on your health, social life and personal relationships?

For those who can cope have had a life of total luxury. The key is to have a solid plan tha

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

Examples of combination products may in

is difficult for you to deviate from. There are a number of elements to include in your plan.

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to enjoy a busines

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

that returns you enough money to allow you to live on room service for the rest of your life?

Check what you are now doing

Which position does your business

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

fit into when considering your competitors? The areas to consider are:

• Product

• Price

• Customer support

• Costs

• Market share

Other points to consid

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

Combination pro

r are how do you compare against your closest rival? Which businesses excel in your line of work? Once you have found that out work out what makes them differe

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

t so you can be better.

Create the plan

Always focus your efforts to deliver great products and even better service. Questions you can ask yourself are:

• D

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

you measure quality and reliability of products?

• Is the performance of your business measured?

• Is customer satisfaction measured?

• Is your staff multi

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

skilled?

• Do you communicate well?

Establish time frames and actions to be carried out and by whom. Document and monitor to ensure it is completed.

Set you

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

targets When you are setting your time frames and targets make sure they are big, exciting and totally unreasonable without being over the top. Do it for one

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

two and three years out. If you are satisfied you won't have the drive to send yourself to the next level. If targets are too small, you will not generate exc

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

Following aspects would a

tement and urgency.

Do's and don'ts

To progress you will need to develop in certain areas. Here are some do's and don'ts:

Do

• Set bigger and better challe

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ges

• Accept change as a stepping stone to better things

• Strive to improve everything

• Watch your competitors

• Measure everything

Don't

• Don't be sa

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

isfied with your situation

• Don't ignore red flags as warning signs

Recommendations

I also suggest that you complete the following template to get you on t

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

ack. It's an easy form to do. Just fill in the spaces and it will carry you to a satisfactory conclusion: http://www.nt.gov.au/business/documents/general/bus

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

nessplan.pdf

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Conclusion

If you're going to be successful you will have to be able to evaluate the proposed c

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

anges that will be made before they are implemented. Here is a short test in question form to evaluate if you are ready to accept the proposals to be made.

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

re you already doing it?

• Has it been tried unsuccessfully in the past?

• Could it work?

• Is it practical?

• Is it ethical?

• Is it based on empire buil

.

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

ing and self interest?

• Is it based on untested theory or speculation?

• Will it solve the problems?

• Are the risks acceptable?

• Is it cost effective?

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Is it within budgets?

Answers to these questions will indicate that you are ready now or you will require more time to educate yourself for the tasks at hand

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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