Policies & Procedures

At Potomac River Partners, we understand the dynamic and complex compliance challenges life sciences organizations face and provide clear, structured, and accessible documentation to meet your specific regulatory needs. Our team has deep expertise in the laws, codes, and industry regulations that shape the life sciences sector, and we excel at communicating essential compliance content with clarity and precision.

Whether you are implementing policies for the first time, updating existing documentation, or improving operational performance, we create effective materials that inform, engage, and support compliance across your organization.

Custom Policy & Procedure Development

Our team develops both stand-alone, topic-specific policies and comprehensive multi-topic manuals, bringing expertise across a wide range of compliance areas to support audiences throughout your organization.

We deliver clear, concise, and compliant documentation tailored to your organization’s culture, content style, and design standards, ensuring your policies and procedures are both effective and engaging.

Stand-alone, topic-specific policies or multi-topic manuals
Global, Regional or National content
Audience-specific content or intended for entire company

Policy Simplification and Design

We help companies simplify policies and make them more accessible to an increasingly younger, mobile workforce. Complex and wordy policies can be difficult to read and harder to remember, exposing your organization to potentially costly violations. We simplify existing content, eliminate redundancies, and focus on the most critical messages. Backed by our specialized graphic design team, we transform policies into visually engaging, easy-to-read formats that are optimized for mobile devices so your employees can access the right guidance anytime and anywhere.

Launch Pad

Potomac River Partners’ Launch Pad Policies provide the ideal foundation for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies preparing for rapid policy implementation ahead of their first FDA drug or device approval. We have developed more than 25 expertly drafted core policies along with function-specific Launch Pad manuals using a proven, standardized framework that allows for quick customization to your company’s unique rules, compliance criteria, and operational structure.

Launch Pad Policies:

Contracts with Healthcare Professionals
Communications with HCPs
Speaker Programs and Speaker Training
Meals and Venues
Educational Items
Advisory Boards
Conventions, Exhibits, and Displays
Promotional and Non-Promotional Material
Clinical Trials and Publications
Investigator Initiated Studies
Educational Grants and Charitable Contributions
Medical Inquiries
Samples, Coupons, and Vouchers
Interactions with Patient and Patient Organizations
Managed Care and Reimbursement
Conflicts of Interest
Social Media
Compliance Office Infrastructure
Transparency Reporting Requirements

Functional-specific Launch Pad manuals for:

Field Sales Professionals
Medical Science Liaisons
Field Reimbursement Professionals
Headquarters Staff

Clear Procedures and Job Aids

Procedures define exactly how critical compliance processes should be performed, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and regulatory alignment. Our consultants specialize in designing streamlined workflows that remove unnecessary steps, reduce resource waste, and improve operational performance. We document each process in a clear, easy-to-follow format that communicates roles, responsibilities, and timelines, helping you maintain compliance and operate with precision.