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Many corporations are jumping on the blogging bandwagon. It's important that the whole organization knows the rules and i

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

nternal policies of your blog. The answers to these questions will determine which business rules govern the functionalit

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

Examples of combination products may in

of any corporate blog.

1. Who can post entries on the blog?

2. Who can post comments on the blog?

3. What kinds of co

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

ntent are allowed on the blog?
a. Text
b. Images
c. Audio
d. Video
e. Surveys
f.

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

Quizzes
g. Animation
h. Links
i. Advertisements
j. HTML content
k. Animation
l.

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

Combination pro

PDFs
m. Blogroll

4. What kind of content is allowed in comments?
a. Text
b. Images
c. Audio<

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

r> d. Video
e. Surveys
f. Quizzes
g. Animation
h. Links
i. Advertisements
j.

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

HTML content
k. Animation
l. PDFs

5. Will postings be reviewed and approved before posting?

6. Will

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

omments be reviewed and approved before posting?

7. Will an administrator have the ability to delete postings after they

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

have been published?

8. Will an administrator have the ability to delete comments after they have been published?

9. W

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

ll an RSS feed of the Blog be made available?

10. What are the database fields for the blog?
a. Date
b. Ti

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

Following aspects would a

le
c. Body
d. Profile
i. Name
ii. Location
iii. Description

11. Will there be an arch

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ive?

12. Will blog entries be archived by month?

13. Which fields will be available for the blog entry?
a. Title

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

- main title of the post,
b. Body - main content of the post,
c. Comments - comments added by readers

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

d. Category (or tags) - category the post is labeled with (optional, multiple categories possible)
e. Permalink -

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

the URL of the full, individual article
f. Post Date - date and time the post was published
g. Trackback -

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

links back from other sites
* List of blog fields from Wikipedia
14. How will the blog deal with spammers?

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

15. Would you like certain words to be automatically filtered? This can work in two ways. See below.
a. We can use

.

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

a set list of common profanities. If a profanity is used in either a blog or a comment, the entry will not publish to th

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

site.

b. We can give you the ability to build a list manually and update the list whenever a new bad word comes to mind

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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