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Just like anything on Earth modern society has some kind of balance. So on one hand we have a progressive electronic community and on the other hand we have army of internet criminals whose both work and fun consists of so called identity theft.

As the main weap

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

on of a scammer is his anonymity the main purpose of a Site Owner consists in confirmation of Users identity.

There are some methods to verify website user's identity. Confirmation by email is used when it concerns password reminder service; e-merchants use AVS

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

Examples of combination products may in

checking to authorize their customers as true cardholders while processing credit cards in e-shops and so on.

But it's not enough. Passwords can be stolen through so called phishing. And Address Verification System is used in US and Canada only and moreover its

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

scheme is rather imperfect. There should be another solution. And it does exist.

Telephone verification is a kind of universal method to verify user's identity. It works as follows:

A. A user enters his personal data including phone number a

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

a certain site and presses "submit" button. B. Phone verification system initiates a call to this number. C.After greeting a system asks to enter pin-code that a user sees on the screen using a phone keypad. D.
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro
> A user enters pin-code and hangs up.

After a call is done system passes a merchant user's country and city by phone number area code, phone number type and matching of pin-code entered and pin-code shown on site. Some companies e.g. Proveout.com provides Geo I
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
P research in addition to telephone verification. This allows to compare IP address data with phone number data (whether country and city identified by IP address matches the ones identified by phone area code).

It is a lot. It is surely enough to define whether
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
a Customer is a person he seems to be – a real website user and a real cardholder.

Optionally system can ask a person to confirm his identity/order by saying something like his name or any other information that is recorded. Afterwards, such recordings can prove
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
that a person had indeed used certain service (ordered certain goods). A Site Owner can download a wav-file with a recorded voice message of a customer at any time as it is saved on server of telephone authorization service provider.

This is telephone verificati
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
on and how it works.

Where telephone verification is used

1. E-commerce. Identity theft is a serious problem for plenty of merchants. Telephone verification helps to reduce fraudulent transactions. Customer just passes the standard procedure of
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
authorization and proves that he is a true cardholder. Recorded message with Customers voice can afterwards become a proof of ordering a good/service by a certain person.

2. Any website where registration/authorization is required. VoIP telephone verification ca
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
be used at the registration stage in order to confirm users' identity (e.g. it's of high importance at different forums, online communities, online financial services etc).

Also it can be used in case a user has lost his password. Sending it to a specific email
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
address doesn't guarantee Site Owner cannot be completely sure that password reminder procedure isn't initiated by a scammer with an idea to manage somebody's personal data. Passing telephone verification by user can prove his identity.

3. Sites with free conte
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
t limiting. Very often different companies carry on advertising campaigns that permit using their online services for free for certain time (trial periods). In order to anticipate multiple signing up (which is a bad experience for a marketing report) each new r
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
gistration can be verified in order to prove that use hasn't signed up before.

4. Sites offering region limiting services. In some countries it is prohibited to distribute security software to certain countries. Using telephone verification service Site Owner ca
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
n be sure that his new registered user doesn't live in one of these countries. Phone number area code helps to reveal user's location. This service is even more effective when it is used together with Geo IP research.

VoIP telephone service can be used for autom
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
tion of webmaster's work by programming scheduled phone calls with a request of certain info or a confirmation of certain info. E.g. you can automatically initiate a call when a new order with shipment requirement is submitted in order to confirm shipment det
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
ils. In case you're an owner of an internet-catalogue you can initiate a call e.g. once a month to the members of your catalogue in order to confirm that their sites still exist with the same domain names, so to confirm their membership.

You can use VoIP telepho
.

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
ne verification as a perfect marketing tool. For example you can supply your Clients with information concerning some changes in their maintenance by phone or automatically play them greeting messages on specific dates.

To sum it up, I'm to say that there is a g
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
eat variety of variants on how VoIP telephone verification can be used in internet space. You can offer another ways according to your e-business. It gives great opportunities to communicate with your Clients without being bounded by electronic means (email, ICQ)

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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