“We’re very proud to be launching the Career Step Pharmacy Technician training program,” said Mark Thomas, Career Step COO. “We have developed this program with the goal of providing our students the opportunity to quickly complete their training and find careers in the rapidly expanding pharmacy technician profession. With the help of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and subject matter experts, we’ve created a comprehensive Pharmacy Technician program that helps students gain all of the knowledge and skills they need to enter this field and begin earning a competitive income in as little as three months.”

According to the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pharmacy technician occupation is one of the top 20 fastest growing in the nation. The Bureau estimates that the field will grow by 31% between 2008 and 2018, producing almost 100,000 new pharmacy technician jobs.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also specifically notes that job prospects should be especially good for pharmacy technicians who have formal training or national certification. Career Step graduates have both of these advantages as they enter the workforce as they will have completed a comprehensive formal training program that helps them gain the knowledge and skills needed to confidently sit for the national certification exams.

“In these challenging economic times, Career Step is developing programs to help students train and get into the workforce very quickly after graduation,” said Michael Wilstead, Career Step CEO. “We know that it can be difficult to take time off to go to school, so we not only focus our training offerings in growing job markets, but we also build our online training so that students can study at their own pace and on their own schedules. The new Pharmacy Technician program is a great example of this as there is rapidly increasing demand for well-trained professionals and the Career Step program is specifically designed to help our students take full advantage of that demand very quickly.”

For more information on the new Career Step Pharmacy Technician training program, visit CareerStep.com/pharmtech or call 1-800-246-7837.

About Career Step
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.careerstep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

“This is an award that John has truly earned, and we’re very pleased that his outstanding service has been recognized,” said Career Step CEO Mike Wilstead. “John was instrumental in negotiating the sale of the Company from the original founder to the current investors in February 2009 and was an important player in transitioning of the Company to the new management team. Career Step’s growth and success in the last year is largely due to John’s ability to balance the needs of new and old investors alike and his exceptional operational management skills.”

Utah Business Magazine’s 2010 CFO of the Year program recognized 16 CFOs from a variety of different businesses all over Utah, including honorees from the private, public, non-profit, and government sectors.

Mr. Hiatt was selected as a CFO of the Year within the small, private company category and was chosen from among those nominated for his solid financial leadership during an intense period of growth. In 2009, Career Step increased its earnings by 25 percent, its sales by 30 percent and its product offerings by 50 percent.

Mr. Hiatt was recognized at an awards banquet held at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, and the June 2010 Utah Magazine issue includes an in-depth feature on Mr. Hiatt as well as the other honored Utah CFOs.

About Career Step
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.careerstep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

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“Career Step has always focused its training programs on fields that show continued patterns of growth,” said Mike Hodgson, Career Step’s Vice President of Enrollments. “We’ve chosen to re-launch our Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Coding and Billing program this month to draw attention the fact that the number of jobs in this field aren’t following the nationwide trend—there are more opportunities now than there were several years ago, and the field is still growing.”Both the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have recently released reports on the number of jobs the Medical Coding and Billing field will generate within the next few years. The BLS classifies medical coding and billing professionals as a part of the Medical Records and Health Information Technician field and projects a 20% increase in employment before 2018—representing over 37,000 new jobs. This projected growth will be triggered and sustained by the aging population and the increasing number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures. In comparison, the AHIMA study estimates that there will be a shortage of over 75,000 health information specialists, including medical coding and billing professionals, before 2014.

The Career Step Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Coding and Billing training program allows students to train for a new medical coding and billing career in less than a year while still ensuring that they gain the skills needed to gain employment after graduation. The program also allows students to broaden their career opportunities by simultaneously training for both the inpatient and outpatient coding specialties. For more information on the medical coding and billing field or Career Step’s training program, visit CareerStep.com/IOMCB-Top10 or call 1-800-246-7837.

About Career Step
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.careerstep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

This year’s conference theme is “Change.” The event will be focused on helping healthcare documentation businesses recognize and initiate the change required to succeed in the continuously evolving healthcare documentation industry.

Career Step will be representing its quality educational programs, with particular emphasis on the company’s new Medical Transcription Editor training. This curriculum offers trained medical transcriptionists and those new to the field the opportunity to expand their skill sets to include the expertise necessary to work with speech recognition technology. Speech recognition may bring significant changes to the industry, and Career Step offers a comprehensive training solution designed to quickly prepare the workforce for this new technology.

For more information on the Career Step programs, visit Booth #8 at the conference or CareerStep.com.

About Career Step

Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.careerstep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

“We’ve developed the new Medical Transcription Editor program to ensure our students are marketable and flexible in the current job market as well as prepared for the future,” said Michael Wilstead, Career Step CEO. “Several of the medical transcription service organizations who hire our graduates asked that we develop this training—they need quality employees with both medical transcription and medical editing skills sets, and they see that need only increasing in the future.”

Career Step has been a leader in medical transcription education for almost 20 years, offering an industry-leading Medical Transcription training program. This time-tested and employer-recognized curriculum is the foundation of the new MTE training program, which incorporates training designed to help students gain the specialized skills necessary to perform both medical transcription and to complete the reports generated by speech recognition systems. This new program was developed in response to employer requests and is designed to prepare students for the industry trend toward a greater number of speech recognition generated reports.

In order to provide students with the best and most relevant training, Career Step has partnered with M*Modal and incorporated their industry-leading editing technology in the practicum section of the training program.

“Including M*Modal technology in our training program simulates the workplace and allows our students to learn on transcribed files like those they’ll actually encounter as professionals in the industry,” said Mark Thomas, Career Step COO. “We chose to partner with M*Modal because of their market leadership and innovative speech recognition technology.”

The Career Step training program incorporates M*Modal’s editing tool, AnyModal Edit, in order to prepare students for the reality of the workplace.

“We are very pleased to partner with Career Step,” said Mark Ivie, COO of M*Modal. “M*Modal’s speech recognition technology is now delivering edit ready draft documents to eight of the top ten medical transcription service organizations, and the collaboration between Career Step and M*Modal for the creation of a medical transcription editing training program is a logical solution to meeting the challenges medical transcriptionists face when moving from the world of transcription to the world of editing.”

The new Career Step training program will be offered in both a full vocational version, designed for those with no previous medical transcription experience, and a supplemental version, meant for those already trained or working as medical transcriptionists. For more information on either of these new Career Step training options, visit CareerStep.com/mte or call 1-800-246-7837.

About Career Step
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.careerstep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

About M*Modal
M*Modal Technologies, founded in 2001, is used in 800 hospital and healthcare systems nationwide via partnerships with industry leaders in the healthcare IT and services world. M*Modal is based in Pittsburgh, PA, and offers on-demand conversational documentation services that help healthcare providers capture discrete clinical information from dictation to generate complete and timely electronic medical records. M*Modal’s focus is on providing hospitals, healthcare IT vendors, and medical transcription service providers with the industry’s most comprehensive yet most adaptable solution for creating highly accurate, structured, encoded, and shareable medical documents to increase patient safety, promote continuity of patient care, and reduce cost. For more information on M*Modal, visit its web site at: www.mmodal.com

“We are fortunate to have a large base of satisfied, enthusiastic students and graduates,” said Ryan Ewer, Career Step Vice President of Marketing. “This new program is designed to make it easier for them to tell others about Career Step, and it rewards them for doing so.”

Over the past few months, Career Step has examined and evaluated many of its promotional programs, and the existing referral/affiliate program was identified as an area for improvement. The new personal referral program replaces the old program and offers improved trackability, updated content and increased program reliability.

The new program is specifically designed for those who do not have their own independent websites, and it provides participants with a unique ID and webpage to track referrals. Participants also have access to marketing resources to help them better promote the Career Step courses.

To learn more about the new personal referral program and other Career Step paid promotion programs, visit CareerStep.com/promote.

About Career Step
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit CareerStep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

“Because healthcare education is such a rapidly growing industry, Career Step recognizes the importance of an online affiliate program,” says Ryan Ewer, Career Step Vice President of Marketing. “This new program is our answer, and it will provide participants the opportunity to benefit from the high demand for the quality online healthcare education that we offer.”

Career Step has partnered with the ShareASale affiliate network in order to take advantage of their best-in-breed technology. This partnership will ensure accurate tracking and prompt payment of affiliate commissions.

Career Step representatives will unveil the new affiliate program and be available to provide more information at the Affiliate Summit West 2010 being held January 17-19 in Las Vegas. More information can also be found at http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=25156.

About Career Step
Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.CareerStep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

“We are very proud of the growth Career Step has achieved over the last nine years,” said Michael Wilstead, Career Step CEO. “There are very few companies who have such a consistent record of appearing on the Utah 100, and we appreciate the hard work of all of our employees, both past and present, who have made this growth possible.”

Governor Gary R. Herbert was the keynote speaker at the annual awards banquet and expressed his appreciation for the Utah 100 companies, which are strong performers despite the nation’s struggling economy.

“Being a nine-time winner of the Utah 100 is an amazing accomplishment,” said Steve Stauffer, this year’s chair of the Utah 100 program. “Career Step has continued to thrive even in this difficult economy. They are a great Utah company, and I congratulate them on their achievements.”

The companies named to the Utah 100 are chosen from thousands of applications submitted to the MountainWest Capital Network. Applicants and award winners represent a variety of industries including education, retail, technology, healthcare, and financial services, among others.

About Career Step

Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. For more information on Career Step, please visit www.careerstep.com or call 1-800-246-7837.

About MountainWest Capital Network

Founded in Salt Lake City in 1983, the objective of the MountainWest Capital Network – the real Deal Network – is to support entrepreneurial success and enable business growth by fostering the dynamic flow of information about capital formation and distribution, educating and mentoring excellence, recognizing and rewarding business success and performance, and fostering synergistic relationships through networking. MWCN has provided the Deal Flow Report since 1995. www.mwcn.org

PROVO, Utah—Career Step, a leading healthcare education company, has partnered with Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Bay, Fla. to offer training to individuals interested in pursing careers in medical transcription and medical coding and billing.

“We’re excited about the career education opportunities our partnership will bring to the students of Hillsborough Community College,” said Career Step’s Vice President of Business Services, Cameron Loflin. “Through our partnership with HCC, students will gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the growing fields of medical transcription and medical coding and billing.”

The new programs will expand Hillsborough Community College’s online offerings. Students who enroll in this/these online courses will have the flexibility to train entirely on their own schedules, increasing the career training options of many, especially non-traditional, students.

“We’re thrilled about the career education opportunities our courses will provide for the interested residents of Hillsborough County,” said Carla Gainer, RN, Hillsborough Community College Continuing Education Allied Health Coordinator.  “Through the non-credit Allied Health courses at HCC, students will gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the growing medical field.”

Hillsborough Community College will be holding an informational Open House on Saturday, October 3 from 10 a.m. to noon at 39 Columbia Drive, Tampa Bay, Fla. This session will provide more information for those interested in learning more about the advantages of training through Hillsborough Community College’s Career Step offerings and the attractive career opportunities in the fields of medical transcription and medical coding and billing. For more information on the Open House, please visit www.hcccontinuinged.com or call 813-259-6010.

About Career Step, LLC

Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to helping each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career.

About Hillsborough Community College

HCC strives “to deliver education of the highest standard enabling a diverse community of life-long learners to achieve their maximum potential in a global society.”