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WordPress was created in 2003 – starting with a few users, and only some basic web publishing capabilities. For a while it ‘lurked’ in the shadows of more established publishing tools. But then in 2005

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

it started emerging as a preferred blogging tool. Just over 3 years after launch, and things are very different. During 2006, there were over 1.8 million downloads of Vsn 2 of the software – resulting

; 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 hundreds of thousands of web sites being powered by WordPress.

And the reason for this massive surge in popularity? There are a few key factors - ease of use, good documentation and support, an op

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

en framework, and continual development by a dedicated team.

My introduction to WordPress was in 2005. I had already had some experience with web publishing products. We created a browser-based intran

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

et application for a customer, as published a few business websites for clients – all done in Microsoft’s ASP / ASP.Net. So we were used to a painful process associated with setting up a new site...

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

Combination pro

en I saw the WordPress statement about a ‘5 Minute Install’ – I thought it was an idle boast. When I logged onto my web control panel (all new to me – as I was only familiar with a Microsoft setup), an

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

d quickly installed my first WordPress blog within the 5 minute window, I was astounded. The install – run through Fantastico – was so incredibly simple. And the install auto-populating the new WordPre

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

ss blog with a few sample entries made it so easy to immediately grasp how the program worked. A stroke of genius that probably most WordPress newbies don’t even appreciate.

Trying to get developers t

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

o document software is like trying to herd cats. Many software projects – even in corporates with strict development controls – battle to get this right. Well – somehow Matt Mullenweg – the driving for

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

ce behind WordPress - has managed to pull this off. The WordPress website has many, many pages covering a large range of topics – from basic setup, WordPress fundamentals, all the way through to develo

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

er guides to enable 3rd party developers to create plugins to extend the program. And if you can’t get answers there, the forum usually helps clear up any issues.

The real genius has been the open fra

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

Following aspects would a

mework – where 3rd party developers have been enabled to write plugins. These extend the basic functionality of WordPress. Hundreds of developers have created a variety of extensions. An ‘extended’ Wor

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

dPress can look very different to a basic blog, becoming a powerful publishing platform suitable for many different types of sites – such as content sites, ebay sites, affiliate review sites, and even

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

business sites.

Not all plugins are great, and there are some that are not supported after release. But there are also many good ones that make it so easy for even a publishing newbie to set up a powe

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

rful website very quickly. Contrast this to having to pay a developer a lot of money for some customized website software – that takes forever to develop and debug.

The final factor that definitely 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

tributes to WordPress’s growing popularity is the ongoing development of WordPress. Matt Mullenweg and his team of developers deserve at a special thanks for creating such a useful and flexible web pub

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

lishing platform. And for their continued dedication to upgrading WordPress. There have been several significant ‘leaps’ in functionality with each major release that has taken place over the past 3 ye

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

ars, and no doubt more are on the way.

If you haven’t tried your hand at WordPress – why not give it a go. It is after all free to install. And if you get stuck with setting up a site with WordPress,

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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

there are several sources to help you – from video courses, to templates, to plugins, to full-scale products that offer complete web publishing solutions based on WordPress. If you do check it out, you

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

will see that Matt Mullenweg and team have succeeded (actually exceeded) with their goal …

"WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system …"

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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