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If you think that the programmer has nightmares trying to get a piece of medical billing software to work correctly and the QA tech has headaches trying

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

to test this software under every possible condition, imagine the troubles that the support tech has when he is basically stuck in the middle of this n

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

Examples of combination products may in

win battle. In this installment, we're going to show you just what the support tech has to go through on a daily basis.

The biggest problem that the

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

support tech has is that they are basically the last one to find out what the software does and the first line of defense when it comes to taking suppor

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

calls. This gives them the least amount of time to prepare what is inevitably going to come down the pike. Need an example? Here's a perfect one.

T

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

Combination pro

e DME medical billing software company decides to add barcoding to their line of products. So the hardware department makes the barcoding machines that

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

will actually read these barcodes. The printing department makes the labels. They have to be just the right size. The programmers then write the cod

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

to make it so that the barcoding machines read the barcodes correctly and print them properly on the labels, lined up just so. The QA tester then test

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

all of this to make sure it works just right.

After all this is done and it is determined that the product is working as it should, it is then handed

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

over to the support techs so that they can learn how to use it in order to be able to support the product. They really don't have the chance to fully t

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

st the product because it needs to go out to the public right away. Besides, it's the QA department's job to make sure the software is working correctl

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

Following aspects would a

.

Well, the software gets released to the public. Right around this time, another company comes out with a barcode reader. They claim that it will wo

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

rk with any software because it is generic. It turns out that this reader is cheaper than the reader that comes with the DME software. So customers op

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

to buy the new reader instead. Well, it turns out that the barcode readers can use one of two protocols. Unfortunately, the QA tester and programmer

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

nly made and tested this software for the more common protocol and the new reader uses the other protocol. Can you see what's coming down the road?

Th

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

e support department starts getting bombarded with calls. Customers are complaining that their barcoding module doesn't work with these generic readers

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

that are on the market. Support goes back to QA, who then goes back to programming, where it is discovered that they only programmed the barcoding syst

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

m for the one protocol. So, programming has to add the second protocol, QA has to test it and then poor support has to get back on the phone with these

.

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

screaming customers and send them the new software. They're the only ones who didn't screw up but they get all the fury of the customer.

The moral to

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

this is simple. If ever you decide you want to work for a medical billing software company, you might want to think twice about becoming a support tech

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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