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Just a few short years ago, telecommuting was a rare benefit for a select few. Employers were reluctant to give up the belief that employees needed watching, and that working from home really meant a day of watching soa

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

p operas, devouring chocolates, and catching up on the laundry. The traditional 9-to-5 in the office was the accepted standard for assuring that employees were where they were supposed to be and doing what they were su

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

Examples of combination products may in

posed to do. For most, proof of productivity was measured by hours in the office, rather than by results.

However, with the help of laptops, PDAs, and high-speed internet, the practice of measuring productivity with ti

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

e seems to be taking a few hits. More and more employers have begun to realize the benefits of telecommuting: lower overhead, less infrastructure, more productive employees, and greater retention. Some who already had p

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

rograms in place for a few are expanding the programs they have to include more employees. Large employers such as the federal government are setting new standards for telecommuting by embracing the concept rather than

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

Combination pro

ejecting it. There's even a new term for it now that covers not just those working from home, but those working on the road, or from satellite or client offices — "telework."

The government leads the way
Telework

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 viewed favorably enough that the federal government, through its Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA), conducts an annual survey of its own agencies to ensure that telewor

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

k opportunities are offered to employees as appropriate, and that the number of employees allowed to telework continues to rise. Telework Centers are maintained as satellite office space for teleworkers, and there are e

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

tensive policies governing the use of telework as a work option. Both agencies joined together to create a joint website dedicated to their telework programs. The willingness of the OPM and the GSA to accept and utilize

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

teleworking seems to be successful, too - the number of federal employees allowed to telework at least part time has increased by nearly 40 percent since the surveys began in 2001.

The federal government is often the f

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

rerunner in adopting new insights on the American workforce, and with the Fed setting the pace for making telework an acceptable means of conducting business, it's logical to conclude that the American workplace as a wh

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

Following aspects would a

ole may adopt the same outlook. For some industries, it could mean a whole new definition of what it means to "go to work."

Telework isn't for everyone
As appealing as it may sound, however, there are those who fi

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

d telework to be less than they had hoped for. Interestingly enough, this dissatisfaction isn't coming from the employers, but from employees who find themselves lonely and feeling disconnected from the office culture.

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

ranted, it's not a majority, but for some, telework brings a sense of feeling "left out," perhaps to the extent of missing opportunities for advancement, or to influence the opinions of others with a viable presence in

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

the office. For a few, they just miss the structure of an office and find working at home to be more distracting than inspiring. Some employers willingly welcome these folks back into the fold, while others address this

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

by providing resources, support, and training to their telework forces that help them adapt to working from home, enable them to make better use of technology, and learn how to interact effectively and productively in a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

electronic environment.

The changing workplace
Today, there are more than 12 million Americans who telework full-time, and another 10 million who telework part-time. However, given the diverse nature of the workp

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

lace, telework won't be an option for many types of businesses but certainly, it's becoming a much more viable option for jobs that entail computer work, thinking, or perhaps working with numbers. You won't see manufact

.

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

rers sending their product assemblers home to put things together, but you may see their accountants working at home a few days a month…or a week. Telework isn't such a foreign concept anymore. It may have once been tho

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ght of as an ineffective approach to managing work/life balance, but modern workplaces now know that happy, less-stressed employees means employees that stay longer and get more done — and cost them less in the long run

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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