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A recent survey by Salary.com shows employee productivity may not be all that employers would like. According to the survey, “the average worker in the US a

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

dmits to frittering away 2.09 hours per eight hour workday”. This figure does not include lunch breaks or other scheduled break-time.

In Wisconsin for exam

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

Examples of combination products may in

le, for every eight hours work an employer pays for, the employee is likely to deliver less than six. Respondents admit to wasting 2.8 hours on activities s

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

uch as:
• Surfing the Internet for personal use
• Socializing with co-workers
• Conducting personal business

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

time off such as lunch breaks, vacation time and sick leave and the productivity picture looks even worse.

According to the survey, the number one time-was

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

Combination pro

ing excuse is “Don’t have enough work to do,” reason enough for many to consider outsourcing over hiring. Since a whopping 33.2% of respondents cited this a

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

s their biggest reason for wasting time, small business owners need to seriously consider whether they can keep a new hire gainfully employed before committi

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

g to that kind of expenditure.

With statistics like these, the argument for outsourcing has never been stronger. Many organizations are now realizing the b

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

enefits of outsourcing some functions historically fulfilled in-house. Even small business owners and solo entrepreneurs are finding that outsourcing is no

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

only a viable alternative to hiring, it makes economic sense. Why hire an employee with all the associated expense when the work can be contracted out to a

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

freelancer.

We are perhaps all familiar with traditional freelance workers such as Web designers, computer programmers, graphic designers, and book keepers.

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

Following aspects would a

One of the fastest growing groups of seasoned professionals who have left the corporate world to become successful home-based entrepreneurs is Virtual Assi

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

tants

Jeff Mills, President and CEO of Goldmills Marketing LLC, frequently contracts Virtual Assistants to enable him to use his time more productively. “

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

Using virtual assistants allowed me to free up my time making more money with serious clients, while the VA's were qualifying leads for my time, which in the

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

end, helped me stay focused on spending time with the serious leads and not the tire kickers.”

“I have also used VA's to make calls to leads for me, do rese

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

rch, database entry, and a lot more things that take my time away from more important activities associated with my business,” adds Mills. Perhaps the great

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

est advantage for businesses like Goldmills Marketing is that they only pay for time on task and do not need to worry how to keep staff fully occupied during

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

slack periods.

Considering the statistics above, it is likely that Virtual Assistants will continue to become highly sought after. They are undoubtedly a g

.

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

reat solution for the small business owner who can not afford to directly hire an assistant and provide them with a desk, computer and all the paraphernalia

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

hat goes with an employee.

Just for the record, Wisconsin is not the biggest time wasting state. It ranks number four behind Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky

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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