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What can the people at your company helpdesk see? Most likely everything. Here's a story that shows the naked truth about what your helpdesk people might be looking at.

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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

had just joined the helpdesk team of 16 people. I noticed right away there was a lot of time to burn. The helpdesk didn't spend a lot of its time helping computer users. They mostl

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

Examples of combination products may in

browsed the web all day. They would share downloaded movies and various humorous web sites with one another. One day I saw about 5 guys standing around a desk gazing at the compute

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

r screen. They were looking at the contents of another employees PC. This particular employee was a woman who decided to purchase a Handspring PDA with a camera. Among the artsy ph

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

tos she had in there, she also had pictures of herself, naked. How embarrassing. Upon further review, the PDA software had been uninstalled from the PC long ago. However, the data w

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

Combination pro

s kept intact as most software uninstalls are designed not to delete data. This woman spent months with this stuff on her PC. Little did she know that the boys up in IT were enjoy

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

ing her photography almost every day.

There are all kinds of things you can find out about a person from getting documents from their PC. Email, forms, pictures, letters 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

family members, anything on the computer can be found by any IT employee with admin rights. Some people choose to be lazy about items kept on their PC. They say "What do I care if

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

they find a letter I wrote years ago to my mom?" Others don't know that IT employees can see everything. You need to take notice and responsibility for what's on your company PC. It

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

can affect your reputation or even get you fired. I have come across documents with social security numbers, maiden names, credit card numbers, and even images with a copy of a dr

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

vers license. All of these can be used for identity theft. I've seen email to mistresses and email including a sexual dialog. It's a good thing our IT team wasn't into blackmail.

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

Following aspects would a

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How do you protect yourself?

Keep personal items off your company PC. If you connect to your company network from home via a VPN connection, that

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

PC you use can be searched too. Deleting email isn't good enough to make sure it's gone for good, but it helps. It's best not to use your company email account for personal dialog

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

because it is backed up and any email can be undeleted. However, be aware that even your personal web mail can be viewed if you are viewing it from work, although it's not as likel

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

to be viewed as internal company email.

If you have certain documents that are personal, but you must keep somewhere on your PC, try storing them in a folder that isn't ob

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

vious. This makes personal files more difficult to find. Snoopers are more likely to try to find things in your My Documents folder rather than a folder named "Terri's School Work"

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

Make the folder name as uninteresting as you can. Also use ambiguous filenames if possible.

There are also applications available that encrypt documents so that nobody

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

but you can read them without a password. Windows XP includes its own encryption system. You can find out how to use it at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore

.

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

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If you have rights to install software on your own computer, install your own personal firewall software. Installing a local firewall will block anybody

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

from getting in and seeing your data easily. I recommend Zone Alarm. You can download a free copy at http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

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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