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Working from home sounds like a great option doesn’t it? Certainly, you can read many articles on the Internet extolling the virtues of working from home and probably wish you could park

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

your car in your garage and start telecommuting right away!

I’ve worked from home for close to two years now and absolutely love it.

This article will not list the benefits of working f

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

Examples of combination products may in

rom home. Anyone can quickly figure out on their own that having no commute, no office politics, flexible work hours and closer proximity to your family are just four possible benefits th

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

t are achievable when you work at home.

You can figure out the benefits of working from home that are important to you without me telling you.

What I believe is more beneficial is a bri

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

ef discussion of what you need to consider before thinking about setting up a home office and working from home. These are all things I’ve experienced and noticed since I started telecomm

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

Combination pro

ting:

1. Can you balance your work and your personal life?

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

y but sometimes hard to do. I have found it difficult at times to leave work behind for the day because when you work from home, you don’t leave the office to go home as before because yo

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

’re already there! Don’t underestimate the importance of being able to switch from your work persona to your personal life persona. It can be hard to do sometimes and can cause grief in y

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

our personal life.

2. Are you self-motivated?

Since you won’t have your boss or co-workers to motivate you, you’ll have to do it yourself. Working from home requires someone who

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

an work on their own without a lot of direct supervision. Can you maintain a high level of work output on your own?

3. Do you have a dedicated work space that you can use for your hom

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

e office?

You will probably find that your best bet to help separate your work and personal life is to have a dedicated work area (ie. a room solely used as your home office) to real

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

Following aspects would a

ly set out your work space. If you simply work at the kitchen or dining room table, not only can things get messy quickly it can make it harder to separate work from home. If you have a r

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

om in your house that you can use strictly for work, you’ll probably find it easier to walk away from work every night and concentrate on your personal life for a few hours!

4. Do you

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

have a job that lends well to working from home?

If you have a job that requires frequent meetings or that requires you to work closely with other staff face to face, you might find

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

it difficult to work from home without having to pop into work frequently which might end up defeating the purpose of telecommuting in the first place. Having said that, your employer wil

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

l probably help make this distinction with you and working from home several days per week to start might be an option you could look at, if possible.

5. Do you need social interactio

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

with other people?

If you need a great deal of face to face contact with other people, working from home may not be in the cards for you. Some people simply need the social interact

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

ion that working in an office provides and if you do, you might find yourself calling people on the phone for no reason other than to hear someone else’s voice, which can really harm your

.

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

productivity.

6. Are you easily distracted?

If working from home means that there is a chance you will spend a great deal of time watching tv, running personal errands and otherw

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ise wasting time during “work hours” then telecommuting might not be for you. Depending on your job, you will most likely find your powers of concentration tested every single 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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