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Internet telephony or VOIP uses your phone - the interface we're all familiar with, but instead of connecting your phone to the wall, you connect it to a box either the VOIP company p

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

rovides or you buy on your own. This is the modem. You need high-speed/broadband internet for this. Your modem plugs into your cable/dsl modem and now it can 'talk' without your phone

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

Examples of combination products may in

and the internet.

Your phone lines already do pretty much what VOIP does, just with different/older technology (well, some of it's new with optics and such, but...).

How hard is it

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

o setup?

It's actually very easy. Assuming you have the company send you a modem or you buy a kit at the store, you simply plug the modem without your current cable/dsl modem and you

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

computer (e.g., the out from your cable modem now goes to the new box and the out from that to your computer). It also has a phone jack for your regular phone.

Once it is on, it wil

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

Combination pro

boot up and configure itself. What are the benefits?

There are many benefits depending on the company you go w/, but here are a few I have (all of these are free with the monthly

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

ee- $14.99 for my setup):

1. Features like caller id, call waiting, call waiting caller id, call forwarding, etc.

2. Voicemail

3. Email alerts for new voicemail.

4. Web access to

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

oicemail - you can play your messages on your computer.

5. Auto-forward - if the phone is ever down or isn't answered, it's auto-routed to another number

6. Online management of all

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

features, settings, account, etc.

7. Computer dialing - highlight any number on your computer, hit F6 and it sets up the call from your phone to theirs - very convenient!

8. Keep yo

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

r regular phone (you don't need a Voip phone)

There are some other cool features available for extra $ like the soft phone which lets you use your computer as a phone w/o the modem -

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

this means you can take your laptop with you wherever and you have your phone with the same phone number everywhere too (you can do this w/o the soft phone, but you have to take your

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

Following aspects would a

OIP modem around with you - not bad if you're going somewhere for a longer trip).

Another really cool thing is the virtual phone numbers. You can get extra numbers that ring the same

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

phone, but they are local numbers to any area code you want. So if I live in Dallas and have family in New York, I can get a local phone number here and there. That way my family in N

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

w York can call a local number (free) and talk to me!

SunRocket charges $16.58 /month

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

for that. I'm not sure about the others. And the biggest benefit - IT'S CHEAP! I pay $14.99 plus some tax and such, but not the ump-teen taxes, charges, fees, etc. like the phone co

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

pany charges.

Also, if you do a little research/reading, you can set it up to where every phone jack in your house is wired for VOIP. It's little more than plugging the output of you

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

VOIP modem into the wall jack you already have. Very little more.

Bottom Line

You get lots of good, free features and options for doing/managing a lot more including a lot over the

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

web and it's SO much cheaper (at least it is for me!). Being the 'average guy' I am, I don't really use all the features. Fortunately, it's pretty much a 'set it up and forget about i

.

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

' type thing except that I save $40+/month with it!

I use SunRocket because that's wh

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

t I was told about first and it was one of the first. There are others and I'm sure they have their strengths, but SunRocket has the cheapest base option at the time I did my research

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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