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Where does all of the time go? In the course of a hectic day with managers, customers and coworkers tugging at you to get a moment of your time, it’s easy t

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

o lose sight of your primary objectives for the day.

Just last week, I began the day with no formal appointments, no prearranged telephone calls to make, 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

o meetings scheduled…nothing really pressing. A rare day in my life and I’m sure in yours, as well, so I planned to get some really deep thinking done, you

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

now, like writing my weekly newsletters, preparing some seminar outlines I had been procrastinating, doing my homework for an upcoming consulting assignment

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

, etc.

But when I looked at my watch in the late afternoon, I realized that it was ten minutes of six and I for the life of me I couldn’t think of one impo

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

Combination pro

rtant thing that I accomplished all day. Now don’t misunderstand me, I worked my butt off all day. In fact, during the day, I received a half-dozen telephon

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

calls and returned the calls that rolled to voice mail while I was on another call. I balanced two checkbooks, paid several bills, called my credit card co

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

mpany to dispute a charge and ordered a new supply of personal checks, but I had achieved not one of the important tasks that I came to work planning to fin

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

ish.

Looking back on the day, I quickly realized that I had gotten out of the habit of using a technique that I have used over the years to help me keep my

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

eye on the ball and avoid allowing routine and mundane tasks from overshadowing some really essential work.

The technique I’m referring to is to keep a lis

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

t of super important items separate from my regular to-do list.

Here’s how it works: when I’m in the office, I keep this "super list" in front of me on an

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

Following aspects would a

easel pad hanging on an easel stand. When I leave the office, I jot the list on a 3” x 5” index card and keep it beside me on the seat of my car. It’s diffi

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ult to forget something super important when it’s staring at you every waking moment.

Every time I think about making a telephone call or performing a rout

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

ine task, I glance at my list to make sure that whatever it is that I am about to do is more important than one of the super important items on my list and

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

act accordingly.

If you give this idea a try, be sure to hold onto these daily index cards and at the end of the week, look over them one more time to eith

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

r remind yourself of something that may have slipped through the cracks or else to compliment yourself for a highly successful week.

We’re all barraged wit

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

h opportunities to perform tasks that while perhaps necessary, they are not top priorities. I do my best to spend time during business hours focusing on cus

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

tomer-related marketing or consulting activities and reserve time after hours or on the weekends to complete jobs like writing thank-you notes, balancing my

.

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

checkbooks, reading trade magazines, doing research on the Internet, etc.

Remember the title of the best-selling Stephen Covey book: First Things First. Ge

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

t into the habit of repeating these words to yourself each time you begin working on a project. It’s a great way to keep yourself disciplined during the 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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