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One day I walked into my boss’s office and said, “ I think all staff should do a time sheet, including you, from now on.” I definitely surprised her but the results of this reque

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

st certainly got the attention of all of our staff.

I work for an email marketing software and services firm. I am currently wearing my third hat within this firm. We have been u

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

Examples of combination products may in

nder a ‘massive spring cleaning’ for about six months. We have new staff, new websites and new tasks. I work in the Marketing/Send Service departments where I have specific task

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

and responsibilities but often I take on various new tasks. I began to wonder if my productivity was affected by the quantity and variety of tasks I was working on within a singl

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 workday. This uncertainty, lead to my request of implementing the use of time sheets to my boss. In past careers, I had experienced the use of time sheets as well as time clocks

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

Combination pro

and I was quick to remember how a sense of efficiency as well as commitment went with this practice.

I printed off a weekly calendar with time slots. Each time I switched betwee

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

n my tasks I documented it. Often I was multitasking – deleting spam and updating paper work at same time. I was amazed how my little squares for each hour block could not hold m

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

y description of tasks being completed. Often lunches were consumed while updating a mailing list or proofreading new copy for our new website. In my job, I am expected to stay o

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

top of market trends and ideas – but in my Inbox I have a lonely folder of 180 unread newsletters and articles. Why? Our company found the answers in our timesheet and you will

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

too.

After tracking our actions for three weeks within our company, we were beginning to see how unacknowledged work time, with simple documentation of the five minutes here and

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

ten minutes there (in an eight-hour work day you only have 48 instances to have 10 mins) can add up and was affecting productivity as well as our bottom line. Below are the resul

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

Following aspects would a

ts we found from keeping time sheets.

1) We work too much overtime.

2) Committed staff took on various tasks to get the job done but an individuals’ main job was not always the lar

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

gest percentage of their daily activity. The sub-tasks assigned consumed more than 40% of workday time on average.

3) Customer oriented activities are heavy time consumers in a w

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

rkday. Good companies survive on their personal contact and relationships with customers but we were not accounting for the time it took to conduct basic courtesy emails and phone

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

calls.

4) Sometimes when an issue occurs within the workplace it requires the abilities of other staff, which then was taking away from their current assigned tasks.

5) Holidays

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

nd days off for a staff member lead to responsibilities being spread amongst other staff. A common occurrence though is to put in overtime before time off and then once returned i

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

n order to make up for time away from the office to return to your regular pace.

This activity has allowed us to recommend as well as implement some changes within our company, som

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

e included: Undertaking a systemized process of reviewing individual tasks and actually reassigned some responsibilities to different staff members. We also recognized that we nee

.

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

ed to review the fee structure in certain scenarios to warrant the specialized attention we can provide to our customers.

All employees and boss/owner would benefit from doing a ti

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

me sheet of tasks, not only to learn more about how you spend your time at work but learn to be accountable to yourself for the variety of tasks and activities that you do in a day

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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