Healthcare IT Company CareView Adds Legal and Medical Experts to Board

CareView Communications Inc., a Lewisville, Texas-based information technology provider to the healthcare industry, has named Steven B. Epstein and James R. Higgins, M.D. to its board of directors.

“We are very fortunate that Epstein and Higgins have joined our board,” said CEO Steven Johnson. “Epstein’s life-long career with health care law and Higgins distinguished career in cardiology and with numerous medical institutions will help us round out our board. We look forward to working with them to enlarge CareView’s footprint in order that our medical technology products will become the standard in the industry.”

Epstein founded Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. in 1973. Since then his firm has grown to approximately 250 lawyers in 10 cities and is generally recognized as one of the leading law firms in health care law, with over 100 attorneys dedicated to that specialty. Chambers USA has ranked Mr. Epstein among the “Leaders in Their Field” in the Healthcare category (2009 to 2013) and has referred to him as the “father of the healthcare [legal] industry.” As the senior health partner in the firm, Epstein provides a wide range of health care organizations and providers with strategic legal guidance responding to the legal challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing American health care system. A graduate of the Columbia Law School, Epstein currently serves as chairman of the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. He graduated from Tufts University in 1965. Following graduation from Columbia, Epstein joined the Wall Street law firm of Barrett Knapp Smith & Shapiro. He has served as a legal consultant to the Health Maintenance Organization Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Epstein serves on the board of directors for Street Law Inc., a non-profit organization. He also serves on the board of directors for the following for profit companies: Accretive Catamaran Corporation, Discovery Health, Heights Cross Communications, MedExpress, National Compliance Solutions Inc., OrthoSensor Inc., ResCare, Restorix Health and Solis Women’s Health. In addition, Epstein is a past chair of Health Insights. Founded in 1981, Health Insights is a forum for C-Suite executives from many of the nation’s major hospitals and health systems and the companies that support the industry.

For the past 37 years, Higgins has specialized in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology and internal medicine. Higgins received his B.S. in electrical engineering from South Dakota State University and graduated with high honors from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He currently serves as associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in Oklahoma City, Okla. since 1986 and as clinical professor of medicine at Tulsa Medical College in Tulsa, Okla. since 1991. Higgins is licensed to practice medicine in Missouri, California, Texas and Oklahoma.