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.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Sending the Card

Today is Valentine’s Day. As a child, I rather dreaded this day as would have to laboriously...

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Flying

This is February. In a few days from now thousands of people will flock to New York for Toy Fa...

Friday, January 23, 2015

More Patient Travel Scholarships!

What does the “Cinderblocks2: The Partnership with PatientsContinues” conference (in Grantsville,...

Thursday, January 22, 2015

HIMSS or Bust

Last year I had the opportunity to do an amazing interview with Tim from HIStalk. It was a wide-r...

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Butterflies

What shall I explain about this painting? Shall I tell you that Mélanie Péron lives in France? S...

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Can you tuck me in?

My boys are growing older. My eldest is 16 and stands 6 feet tall. He could easily pass for a gr...

Friday, December 19, 2014

The Grantsville Art Walk was a Success!

On December 11, 2014 the Grantsville Art Walk had a reception and silent auction at Penn Alp...

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About Me

Regina Holliday

Regina Holliday is a resident of Grantsville, Maryland. She is very involved in the local community. She is Secretary of the Greater Grantsville Business Association. 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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