“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.

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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.

PROVO, Utah—Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, has announced the launch of a new Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Coding and Billing career training program. This program will expand the career options of professionals and students in the medical coding field with training in inpatient medical coding.

“There has long been a distinction between inpatient and outpatient medical coding and billing,” said Michael Wilstead, Career Step CEO. “Career Step has been successfully training outpatient coders for years, and we’ve built this new program upon that foundation. Now, our students will be able to train for careers in both inpatient and outpatient coding.”

The medical coding and billing profession is divided between inpatient and outpatient coding based on the complexity of the procedures and the specific codes used. Students who take the new Career Step Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Coding and Billing program will have the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the inpatient coding specialty, which typically offers attractive pay rates and significant opportunity for advancement.

“We’re dedicated to our students’ success,” said Mike Hodgson, Career Step’s Vice President of Enrollments. “This program has been added to Career Step’s curricula to provide our students not only increased options as they start their healthcare career, but also a stronger skill set to further expand their career choices.”

Career Step has been offering training programs in medical coding since 2004 and has developed strong industry relationships that increase the company’s understanding of the industry’s training needs. There is currently a nationwide shortage of qualified medical coding and billing professionals, and the Department of Labor estimates that the field will grow 18 percent between 2006 and 2016.

Learn more about the new Career Step Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Coding and Billing at www.careerstep.com/coding or by calling 1-800-246-7837.

About Career Step, LLC

Career Step is a leading online healthcare education company and 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 enrolling students graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career.

Media Contact:

Amy Kendall

amyk@careerstep.com

]]> http://www.careerstep.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=467 http://www.careerstep.com/blog/?p=463 http://www.careerstep.com/blog/?p=463#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:51:05 +0000 Amy http://www.careerstep.com/blog/?p=463 PROVO, Utah—Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, has released a new online training program designed to help medical transcriptionists prepare to take the Registered Medical Transcriptionist (RMT) exam and earn their RMT credential.

“Career Step has been training quality medical transcriptionists for over 17 years, and we have developed this new course to support the professional development of medical transcriptionists even after they have entered the workplace,” said Michael Wilstead, Career Step’s CEO. “The new RMT Prep course will help those transcriptionists who have limited acute care experience demonstrate to employers that they have the professional knowledge and industry commitment required of excellent transcriptionists.”

The new Career Step RMT Prep course teaches students test-taking strategies specific to the RMT exam and reviews the materials students will need to know to excel on the exam, including medical terminology, principles of healthcare documentation, and body systems. Upon completion of the course, students will have the opportunity to gauge their readiness for the RMT exam by taking a practice test.

The Registered Medical Transcriptionist exam is offered by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and was developed to assure employers and consumers that successful candidates are qualified to practice medical transcription.

AHDI offers two credentials, the RMT credential and the Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT) credential; the RMT credential is designed for those medical transcriptionists who do not have the two years of acute care experience that AHDI recommends for those who take the CMT credentialing exam. Career Step also offers a CMT Exam Prep course for more advanced medical transcription professionals.

For more information on the Career Step RMT Exam Prep training program, visit http://www.careerstep.com/rmtprep.

About Career Step, LLC
Career Step is a leading online healthcare education company and 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 enrolling students graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career.

Media Contact:
Amy Kendall
amyk@careerstep.com
801-769-8453