E-publishing
Though the term E-publishing is frequently used loosely in the industry, e-publishing is nothing but the final compilation of regulatory documents in electronic submission format. This typically includes:
• Assignment of documents to a location within the modular structure
• PDF rendering of final, hyperlinked documents
• Customization of document headers/footers
• Assigning titles and grouping study-related files
• Setup of submission-specific values (e.g., application and sequence number)
From history to present: Trends….
Trends in regulatory publishing can actually be understood easily by first understanding the trends in regulatory submissions. In a review publication, the authors discussed the data obtained by CDC in December 2002 in a global survey designed to provide insight into emerging and future trends in regulatory submissions. The authors mentioned that 105 responses from the regulatory departments at pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and contract research organizations were received and analysed. The majority (56%) of participants in the survey were from the United States, while the remainder represented various European countries (11% Germany, 8% United Kingdom and 7% Ireland).
Although not statistically significant, the survey 's results provided insight into three key areas: technology usage, outsourcing and regulatory trends.
Technology usage
More than two-thirds (70%) of participants were observed submitting regulatory
Improvements in health care and life sciences are an important source of gains in health and longevity globally. The development of innovative pharmaceutical products plays a critical role in ensuring these continued gains. To encourage the continued development of new drugs, economic incentives are essential. These incentives are principally provided through direct and indirect government funding, intellectual property laws, and other policies that favor innovation. Without such incentives, private corporations, which bring to market the vast majority of new drugs, would be less able to assume the risks and costs necessary to continue their research and development (R&D). In the United States, government action has focused on creating the environment that would best encourage further innovation and yield a constant flow of new and innovative medicines to the market. The goal has been to ensure that consumers would benefit both from technological breakthroughs and the competition that further innovation generates. The United States also relies on a strong generic pharmaceutical industry to create added competitive pressure to lower drug prices. Recent action by the Administration and Congress has accelerated the flow of generic medicines to the market for precisely that reason. By contrast, in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
The Federal Food, Drug Administration is responsible for establishing the Code of Federal Regulations which outlines the rules and regulations governing pharmaceuticals. The rules are divided into sections and include guidance based on drug categories. Due to each person having varying reactions to pharmaceutical products not all side-effects are detected during clinical testing. The Federal Food, Drug Administration is responsible for sharing the information with consumers. However, it seems a bit unethical because the large pharmaceutical companies do not have to share all of side-effect information that may assist consumers in making its choice on whether to try a product or to not try a product. Through various survey’s it was discovered that consumers are under the opinion that pharmaceutical companies need to have improved internal controls to ensure their compliance with regulations. Due to physicians and pharmaceutical companies working together and are dependent on one another there needs to be controls in place that would have an unbiased view of the regulations. The government will need to continue introducing new regulations that will aide in monitoring the relationships.
Americans must wait up to 19 years after a discovered treatment before they can participate in benefits of a new medication (Philipson & Sun, 2008). The regulatory process drug manufacturers need to endure before releasing potentially life-saving medication is an extremely expensive, time-consuming process. The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is the main department of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsible for the safety of drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter) sold in the United States (Food and Drug Administration, 2011). This department scrutinizes the testing of new drugs and
Currently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for protecting the over all public health of the United States of America (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2015). The FDA protects the “public health by assuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation” (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2015). On the Medical aspect, the FDA is involved by increasing new medical innovation to be more effective, safes, and more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through regulating pharmaceutical drugs, biologics and medical device in context to granting approvals for marketing authorization, surveillance of the clinical trial study of the drug, post-marketing surveillance of the medical product, etc. The Pharmaceutical companies seek for FDA approval for a new drug to be marketed through a long process. This process starts with applying an application known as an investigational new drug application (IND) to start clinical trials to enroll a group of patients believed to benefit from the investigational product, and to approve that drug is safe effective.
Everyone wants the miracle drugs to be approved faster and get to market quicker; however the safety of the consumer needs to be a priority. Oversight of the manufacturing and approval process is a necessity to ensure the safety of the
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is overloaded with thousands of applications a year, given an applicant can even get their patent filed. In the pharmaceutical industry, the patent process is in dire need of being reformed. A typical patent last twenty years and the process is a little different when it comes to manufacturing drugs compared to other industries. Partly because in the medical field research is more or less openly shared. However, on the pharmaceutical side the more concealed the better the chances are to get good profitable returns. During the beginning stages of getting a drug to market the drug must be tested and adhere to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) guidelines. An FDA approved drug means that the
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In this paper, I am going to discuss about the premarket approval process for pharmaceuticals from its drug development to ultimate approval conducted in Canada and United States. The main intention of Canada (Health Canada) and United States(USFDA) is safety and well-being of public.
announced its intention to submit an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Direct Regulation. The paper suggests that the FDA should rely on a more flexible and adaptive rather than stringent strategy. However, it ignores two serious implications of such an approach. First, this approach would most likely place medical professionals in a more insecure position regarding the devices that they use to evaluate the patients’ medical condition. As claimed in the paper, medical professionals “possess the knowledge and training to evaluate and make choices between medical products.” With a flexible and adaptive approach, it appears that the safety and effectiveness of a variety of devices would remain unproven. Should the market be flooded with such low-quality devices? My answer, by and large, is “no.” In this situation,
Implementing a new programs that will benefit an industry takes investors, time, money and a planning committee to ensure that the proper regulations is selected for the right. It also ensures that the best processes that are in place will benefit the business at its appropriate time. In health care the demands for modification and adjustment comes often to benefit the overall care for the patient. In today’s society, technology has thrust its way into the forefront of medicine and its demand has become high, causing it to be an important factor in healthcare (Palvia & Thambusamy, 2013).
There is a need for greater transparency within the pharmaceutical industry and the media. Motivated
Clinical trials regulations aim to create an environment that is favorable for conducting clinical trials, with the highest standards of patient safety. Guidance documents have been issued by the regulatory departments to assist in the interpretation of policies and regulations and to ensure a uniform application of the legislations on clinical trials.
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