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If you are like me, you probably spend a lot of time on teleconference calls. And like it or not, these calls rarely have eve

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

ryone joining at the same time, so you end up spending a lot of time waiting at the beginning of the call for everyone to dia

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

Examples of combination products may in

in. A new Web-based service is trying to fix that and make these calls more useful.

The service is called Gaboogie.com, and

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

while it isn’t cheap, the productivity gains could pay for the cost of the calls. Here is how it works. You sign up on the 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

mpany’s Web page with your email address, and you get an account with 100 free minutes to try out the service. You enter your

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

Combination pro

participants names and phones numbers using your browser, and set up when the call is to begin. Then the service calls everyo

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

ne and joins them together for the conference.

Since the service is making outgoing calls, they charge you for each minute t

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

at everyone is connected. So if your call last ten minutes and has five people – including you – then that consumes 50 total

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

minutes. You can buy minutes in bulk (250 minutes for $30, 1000 minutes for $80) to recharge your account when you run low.

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

here are a lot of Web-based free conference calling services out there that work the old-fashioned way: you email people a di

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

l-in number and a password, and you have to wait for your parties to initiate the calls and connect in. (I have a list of the

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

Following aspects would a

m on http://yourpersonalgeek.tv if you are interested.) Gaboogie is

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

the first one that I know that initiates the calls. You can create teleconferences in Skype, but it isn’t as simple and you a

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

re limited to a maximum of five participants.

So I like the idea behind Gaboogie, but the service still has some quirks. The

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

Web control panel for the moderator is somewhat terse. If you want your conference call recorded, you can set this up ahead o

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

time but then you have to listen to a recurring beep to indicate the recording during the call. That is somewhat annoying. O

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

nce the call is done, however, the recording can be downloaded as an mp3 file or as an RSS feed for others to listen to. (It

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

ould be nice if the mp3 file could remove the beep indicators from the recording, then these could easily become nice podcast

.

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

s.) And the recording includes about a minute of music on hold at the beginning and about another minute at the end of the ca

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

l.

All in all, Gaboogie is an interesting twist on an old idea. And maybe it will save some time on your next teleconference

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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