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If you create PowerPoint® presentations that others deliver, you may need to create the slides in such a way that the presenter cannot change the slide content.

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

One industry that this is particularly important in is the financial services industry. When the corporate marketing department creates slides depicting perfor

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

Examples of combination products may in

mance of investments, it is very important for legal reasons that no changes get made when the slides are presented. If changes are made that misrepresent the f

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

acts, the organization can be subject to severe penalties and lawsuits.

One approach to protecting content is to restrict the access to the file in PowerPoint

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

2003 if you have installed the Information Rights Management module. In many cases this is a burden and there is an easier way to get almost all of the same ben

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

Combination pro

efits. It uses the ability of PowerPoint to save a slide as a graphic. Here are the instructions for this technique.

Step 1 – Create Your Slides

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
ong>Create your slides in PowerPoint as you normally would, with all the graphics and text you need. Proofread and review your slides to make sure they are fina
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
lized.

Step 2 – Save the slides as Graphic Files

In PowerPoint, click File ? Save As to display the Save As dialog box. Drop down the Save as
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
type drop down box at the bottom of the dialog box and scroll down to the graphics formats.

Select the PNG Portable Network Graphics Format (Other formats suc
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
h as GIF, JPG and TIF offer no better quality and result in larger files). Enter a file name for the graphic files in the File Name entry box. When you click on
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
the Save button, it will ask you if you want to save all of the slides in the presentation or just the current slide. Select the appropriate choice for your sit
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
uation. Your slides are now saved as images on your computer.

Step 3 – Create a New Presentation of Images

Start a new presentation. Click In
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
sert ? Picture ? From File. Find your saved image files from Step 2. Select the image you want for this slide and click the OK button. If needed, size the image
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
so it fills the screen. Repeat this procedure for other slides. These slides are now images and cannot be changed by others. Save this presentation with a new
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
name so you don’t overwrite your original file.

You can use this process to make all of the slides unchangeable or you can use it just for selected slides. You
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
may leave some of the text slides as regular slides and only protect the graphs or tables of data that should not be changed. If you use builds on your slides,
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
where text or graphics are displayed as you advance through the slide, making the slide an image removes those builds, so think about what portions of the slid
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
e your need to protect. You can protect an underlying graph, then add text boxes on top of the image to retain the ability to build ideas on a slide.

Using thi
.

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
s technique will allow you to give presenters the flexibility they need to customize each presentation, while protecting important data that needs to be in comp
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
liance with regulations. Make only the file with the images available to presenters on a corporate network so that the original data and graphs remain protected

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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