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I have seen a pattern forming over the years where we will be contacted by a potential client with a story such as, "

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

I paid over $5000 four months ago to have my ecommerce site built and it's still up and the designers won't fix it!".

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

Examples of combination products may in

I'm not a big fan of stories like this. For one, this means that this potential client has already spent their budge

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

t having something created that didn't actually meet their needs - meaning that they do not have the budget to pay th

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

e going rate for having the site done properly. But the more disturbing aspect is when I have a look at what has alre

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

Combination pro

ady been built and find out that the ecommerce website is really nothing more than OsCommerce.

For those of you who

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

may be unfamiliar with OsCommerce, it is a FREE shopping cart solution built by many different programmers to be offe

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

ed as "open-source". It's fine if a client really has a bare-bones budget because hey, it's free. When we use a free

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

solution such as OsCommerce, what we charge the client for is simply installing, customizing the template, and settin

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

g up initial categories, shipping, etc. Unless you are programming or installing many additional complex modules to i

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

nteract with the base cart, I really can not fathom why a job using OsCommerce would cost $5000 or more. To me, this

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

Following aspects would a

screams of shady business practices.

I've said this in a number of other articles, that I believe honesty is always

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

the best policy. If you are using any sort of pre-developed software (whether it's free or if you are paying for it),

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

do not fool your client into believing that they are receiving 100% custom work. I find that even when using softwar

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

, there are aspects that are custom (usually the design), but we make clear in our estimates and contracts which is w

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

hich and what the client is actually paying for.

Designers and programmers are always on the look out for things tha

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

t can help them while doing a job, everything from free scripts to stock photos to the latest software. As a designer

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

or programmer, you have to judge for yourself what works best for you and what would benefit your client the most. I

.

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

find the clients are much more comfortable working with you when they know exactly what you are doing for them and w

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

hat they paying for and it's simply more ethical to let a client know when you are using a free or pre-built solution

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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