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Instant messages don't disappear when you close the Sametime (or other) instant messaging window, not in the corporate world anyway. Just about all c

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

orporations back up their network systems' activity daily. If yours doesn't, better quietly start job hunting. The firm is going to crash and burn so

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

Examples of combination products may in

me day soon.

What corporations do with instant messaging varies widely. For example:

An enlightened employer's policy may be to ign

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

ore the instant messaging, knowing that all employees need to let off steam. Company management is well aware that the personal comments themselves c

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

an be retrieved (through the instant messaging logs) when needed, as in the event of a lawsuit.

At other companies, the instant messages a

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

Combination pro

re regularly reviewed, even monitored daily. An enlightened company will use what they read only to identify problems early on, not as a spying tool.

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

Morale issues, for example, are very prone to getting worse, if a bad manager's high-handed tactics are permitted to continue. Such eventually huge

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

problems may cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Use Caution Before Copying Instant Messages

Copying and pas

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

ting someone's informal comments to you is akin to taping a telephone conversation without the permission of both parties. That is, it's highly uneth

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

ical, and in the case of the latter, definitely illegal without a court order. Or it was, until the current Administration's approach to civil libert

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

es. State laws may be more stringent than Federal laws, however.

Someone new to the corporate world or to IM may think nothing of copying instant me

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

Following aspects would a

ssages and pasting them into a database as "proof" of what they were told to do. The text is complete with typos, slang, "smilies," and everything el

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

se that goes along with informal written speech. It can be embarrassing, to say the least. And you may end up being publicly flamed in the same datab

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

ase for doing what you did.

There's Always an Exception to Everything

Exceptions to copying instant messages are when you're being harassed,

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

threatened, or accused of wrongdoing, of course, and then instant messages should be copied into a personal file, not one the whole world reads. Tha

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

t's the real reason behind CYA. Again, if you're new to the corporate world, CYA stands for Cover Your "Backside."

Otherwise, if you don't want to e

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

nd up duking it out in the company parking lot, play it safe. Never copy and paste anyone's Sametime comments into another document or database. Use

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

a more formal e-mail request to obtain your needed information, and use professional wording, wherever you can.

Sametime definitely has its invaluab

.

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

le uses in the work environment. One of the most important is being able to reach the boss, to defuse a crisis. But to be doubly safe, don't say anyt

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

hing in an instant message that you don't want someone else to read. You don't need the long-term headache that may result.

© 2006 Shirley Ann Parke

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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