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    Here's the scenario: one morning you open your email and your inbox is flooded with emails that your site isn't working properly. Maybe your text or images don't look right, or even worse maybe yo
    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
    ur site isn't properly processing credit card transactions. How could this happen when you didn't change a thing? Well, that morning could be the morning later this year that Microsoft releases In
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    rmat=html">SitePoint Tech Times:

    “Word on the street is that, upon its release (before year's end), IE7 will be pushed out as a forced update to Windows XP users everywhere, as was done for Ser
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    ice Pack 2. The move to IE7 among the end-user masses will not be a gradual migration, but a sudden and significant shift.”

    One night Windows XP users will go to bed using IE6 and the next morning
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    they'll wake up, install a routine update, and just like that they'll be using IE7 to browse the web. That means, that as a site owner, you need to begin preparing immediately for IE7's impending r
    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
    lease.

    What's different about IE7?

    From a user's perspective, improvements include tabbed browsing, better printing, RSS feed integration, more advanced searching, and better security featu
    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
    es, as well as a plethora of add ons to enhance the user experience (similar to Firefox extensions).

    However, the most important changes that will have a more direct impact on how your site is loa
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    ed and displayed are:
    • RSS integration – IE7 automatically detects RSS feeds and asks you to subscribe. It also gives you the option to have IE7 auto-check for feed updates (even
    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
    when it's not running). Is your feed properly recognized by IE7?
  • Updated CSS behavior – the IE7 team worked very closely with the W3C workgroup to ensure standards compliance. Th
  • ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    y made over 200 changes from IE6 to become compliant with CSS2.1. Even if your site is standards compliant, it may not be rendered exactly the same as it is in IE6 or Firefox.
  • AJAX XML
  • ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    TTP Request changes – the IE blog states: “to have your cross-browser AJAX work better with IE7, you really should be invoking the native XMLHttpRequest (the cross-browser one) first to see if i
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    ’s available before instantiating the ActiveX control, instead of the other way around”
  • Added security features – everything from more secure SSL defaults to disabling most Active X
  • cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    controls by default has been changed to help make the user's browsing experience more secure. These changes could drastically change your users browsing and purchasing experience.

    You
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    can get full details on all of the changes by visiting the IE Blog.

    What should you do?

    The only way to know
    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
    or sure how your site will work in Internet Explorer 7 is to download it and try. The IE7 team recently released Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), which can be downloaded on the
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    t="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx">Internet Explorer web site. I'd recommend downloading IE7 on a computer other than your primary machine (you still want IE6 on y
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    our primary machine at least until IE7 is officially launched). RC1 is essentially the final version of how IE7 will display sites when launched, so if your site passes the test now you'll likely b
    .

    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
    OK when IE7 is released for real.

    In testing my sites there were a few instances where my site worked flawlessly in Firefox and IE6, but had small problems in IE7. The changes I needed to make we
    elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

    Companies that provide selfless information through particip
    e minimal, but regardless of how well you code there could still be some potential problems. It's better to find and fix them now than to wake up one morning and have hundreds of customer complaints


    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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