Regina Holliday's Medical Advocacy Blog

A place where art, medicine, social media and pop-culture collide and create a patient voice in health information technology.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Hope

This was the third time I circled the perimeter of the College of New Jersey looking for ...

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Keeper of the Match

I have read many books focused on patient advocacy and one of my favorites is “For the Love of Scott” by Jo Hamilton. She gave t...

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Regrounding

When I painted Lori Marx-Rubiner’s jacket the lights were flickering in the high w...

Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Web We Weave

On January 29 th , 2014 I was honored to present at the 1 st Health Informatics Tri-Stat...

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Tomorrow

On November 26, 2013 I arrived in the city of Saskatoon in the province Saskatchewan, Can...

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Companionable Silence

This coming week is Valentine’s Day. It is a holiday for couples, so I feel somewhat out...

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Tip Jars and Sustaining Members

In my line of work and type of advocacy, I get a lot of requests for pro bono work. I su...

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About Me

Regina Holliday

Some people call her the Rosa Parks of Health Care.

Regina Holliday is an activist, artist, speaker and author. You might see her at a health conference painting the content she hears from the patient view. She is part the movement known as participatory medicine. She and others in this movement believe that the patient is a partner with their provider and both should work together as a team. Regina, like her friend Dave deBronkart, is also an e-patient. She utilizes the tools of technology and social media to better understand the patient condition and the landscape of medicine.

Regina is a mother and a widow; she speaks about the benefits of HIT and timely data access for patients due to her family loss. In 2009, she painted a series of murals depicting the need for clarity and transparency in medical records. This advocacy mission was inspired by her late husband Frederick Allen Holliday II and his struggle to get appropriate care during 11 weeks of continuous hospitalization at 5 facilities. Her paintings became part of the national debate on health care reform and helped guide public policy.

She also began an advocacy movement called “The Walking Gallery.” The Gallery consists of medical providers and advocates who wear patient story paintings on the backs of business suits. Paint and patients, pills and policy all come together within The Walking Gallery of Healthcare. This "walking wall" of 200 individuals who wear personal patient narrative paintings on their backs is changing minds and opening hearts. They are attending medical conferences where often there isn’t a patient speaker on the dais or in the audience. They are providing a patient voice, and by doing so, are changing the conversation.

Regina has delivered 80 speeches in the last two years as a patient speaker focusing on range of issues such as patient data access, social media in medicine, end of life care and the power of the visual image. She has spoken before Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Medicine X, The White House Summit on Blue Button, Leap Frog Group, AHDI, HIMSS, AHIMA, AHRQ, HHS, Microsoft and Cerner. She travels the nation as a patient speaker and encourages others to speak as well. She worked with TMIT (Texas Medical Institute of Technology) to create a resource called SpeakerLink.org to help venues find passionate patient speakers.

She published a book with the help of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) entitled: "The Walking Wall: 73 Cents to the Walking Gallery."

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