You might say Andrea Anaya was born to teach medical transcription.

Anaya learned the business from her mother, who ran a small transcription business out of her home. Anaya realized, as a young wife and mother, that her skills gave her earning power.

After working from home herself, Anaya took a job at a Colorado start-up with a huge transcription contract. Besides doing transcription, she became involved in the company's testing, hiring and training.

Anaya noticed that few of them were trained. So she spent four years developing a medical transcription curriculum based on her own experiences plus feedback from the many transcriptionists and client businesses with whom she had worked.

The result is CareerStep, a Springville-based company that offers a medical transcription course that gives students typing, grammar and medical terminology education, as well as loads of practical experience. Anaya's guarantee is that the course is affordable and will teach anyone transcription who has the desire and discipline to complete it.

In addition to offering the course online, CareerStep has partnered with dozens of community colleges to offer the program under a licensing agreement. In response to industry demand, CareerStep also has developed a medical coding training program being used nationwide.

Today, Anaya's former home business is the nation's leading provider of online transcription and medical coding training.