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.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Unfinished

Yesterday, August 27 was the celebration of Jess Jacobs life in California. A few members of the ...

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Color It Blue

I flew to St. Louis, Missouri to attend the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference August 16-17, 2...

Saturday, August 13, 2016

The First to Fall

On August 10, I was so excited to share that we had reached another milestone in the Walk...

Friday, August 12, 2016

How to make a tire planter

This is a medical advocacy blog. So some of you may wonder what does tire planters have to do wi...

Saturday, July 9, 2016

The Walking Gallery Year 6

This is the sixth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare. We now number over 400 members walk...

Monday, May 2, 2016

Cinderblocks 3: Agenda

(This page is always improving with new information as I have it. So please check back for updat...

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About Me

Regina Holliday

Regina Holliday is a resident of Grantsville, Maryland. She serves on the board of the local non-profit The Highland Thrift Shop. She is an active member of the Grantsville Rotary Club. She is also Cubmaster of Pack 460 Cub Scouts.

In addition, Regina serves as a parent advisor to the Garrett County School Board Health Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the Garrett County Chamber of Commerce and The Garrett County Arts Council.

That being said, her good works do not stop at the county line. Some people call her the Rosa Parks of Health Care.

Ms. 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 is a mother and a widow; she speaks about the benefits of health information technology 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 330+ 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.

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

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