HIPPA NOTICE AND AUTHORIZATION FOR DISCLOSURE
Awenami, LLC (“Awenami”) will take all reasonable precautions to protect the privacy of your Protected Health Information (“PHI”) and disclose it in the manner authorized and to provide you with a notice of privacy practices. This notice and authorization describes how Awenami may use and disclose your protected health and medical information. When you subscribe to www.MyCareVoice.com (“My Care Voice”), Awenami requests that you authorize the use and/or disclosure of certain PHI between Awenami, business associates, health care providers, and insurers. You acknowledge that you are voluntarily agreeing to this notice and authorization. You further agree that Awenami may use and disclose your PHI as set forth in this notice and authorization. 
This notice and authorization also describes some rights you have regarding your health information. Health information is information about you that is received, used, or disclosed by the Awenami concerning your physical or mental health, health care services, treatment goals, treatment preferences, medical directives, organ donation, medical proxies, do-not-resuscitate orders, living wills, power of attorneys, physician orders for life sustaining treatment, and medical orders for life sustaining treatment provided to you, or your health providers, insurers, family members, and proxies. Protected health information may contain information that identifies you, including your name, address, and other identifying information.

AWENAMI MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION
You agree Awenami may use and disclose your health information as follows:
For treatment. Awenami may use and disclose your health information to health care providers who may be providing or assisting with your medical treatment. 
To insurers. Awenami may use and disclose your health information to health insurers who cover you and/or may be a payer of your health expenses.
To your health care proxies. Awenami may use and disclose your health information to your health care proxies as you have described in any of your advance care plan documents.
For health care operations. Your health information may also be used or disclosed to improve and conduct health care operations. For example, we may use your health information in order to evaluate the quality of health care services that you received, or to evaluate the performance of the health care professionals who provided health care services to you. We may also provide your health information to our auditors, attorneys, consultants, and others in order to make sure we are complying with the laws that affect us. 
When a disclosure is required by federal, state, or local law, judicial or administrative proceedings, or law enforcement. For example, we make disclosures when a law requires that we report information to government agencies and law enforcement personnel or when ordered in a judicial or administrative proceeding.
Public health activities. For example, we may report required information about various diseases to government officials in charge of collecting that information, and we may provide coroners with necessary information relating to an individual’s death.
Health oversight activities. For example, we will provide information to assist the government when it conducts an investigation or inspection of a health care provider or organization.
Research purposes. In certain limited circumstances, we may provide health information in order to conduct medical research. Use of this information for research is subject to either a special approval process, or removal of information that may directly identify you. In most instances, we will require your written authorization prior to using or disclosing health information for research purposes.
Avoiding a serious threat of harm. In order to avoid a serious threat to the health or safety of a person or the public, we may provide health information to law enforcement personnel or persons able to prevent or lessen such harm.
Certain government functions. We may disclose health information of military personnel and veterans in certain situations, as well as for national security purposes or when required to assist with governmental intelligence operations.
Workers’ compensation. We disclose health information in order to comply with workers’ compensation laws.
Business associates. We will share your health information with business associates that assist Awenami. Business associates include people or companies who provide services to Awenami. We have agreements with our business associates to protect the privacy of your health information.
Disclosures to family, friends, or others. We may provide health information to your family members, proxies, friends, or othes who are directly involved in your care unless you have elected not to share your advance care plan documents. We may also provide health information to those individuals whom you have consented and/or requested that your health information be shared.

RIGHTS YOU HAVE REGARDING YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION
The Right to Request and Limit the Use and Disclosure of Your Health Information. You have the right to request and limit Awenami’s use and disclosure of your health information. You may elect that Awenami not share your advance care plan with third-parties. However, you may not limit the uses and disclosures that we are legally required to make.
The Right to Choose How We Send Health Information to You. You have the right to ask that we send your health information to you at an alternate address (for example, sending information to your work address rather than your home address) or by alternate means (for example, by fax instead of regular mail). We must agree to your request if we can easily provide it in the format you requested.
The Right to See and Get Copies of Your Health Information. You have the right to look at or get copies of your advance care plan and/or health information that we have, by logging into your account viewing and/or printing your advance care plan documents. 
The Right to Get a List of Certain Disclosures We Have Made. You have the right to request a list of instances in which we have disclosed your health information. The list will not include uses or disclosures made for treatment, payment, and health care operation, or information given to your family or friends with your permission or in your presence without objection. It will also not include disclosures made directly to you or when you have given us a written authorization for the release of health information. The list will also not include information released for national security purposes or given to correctional institutions. To obtain this list, you must make a request in writing to Awenami, LLC, Attn: Privacy Officer, 134 W. Cooweescoowee Ave., Oologah, Oklahoma 74053 identified above. The list we will give you will include disclosures made in the last six years unless you request a shorter time,but will not include any disclosure that occurred before August 1, 2021. We will provide the list to you upon request once each year at no charge
The Right to Amend or Update Your Health Information. If you believe that there is a mistake in your health information or that a piece of important information is missing from your advance care plan, you have the right to amend the existing information.  In order to make such change or amendment you must log into your account, access your advance care plan documents, make the intended changes. Upon making and confirming such change to your advance care plan documents the prior version of such document(s) will be discarded and Awenami will not save or retain the prior version of such document(s).
The Right to Get This Notice by Email. You have the right to get a copy of this Notice by email. 
The Right to Revoke This Authorization. You have the right to revoke this authorization at any time. The revocation must be in writing and submitted to the following address:  Awenami, LLC, 134 W. Cooweescoowee Ave., Oologah, Oklahoma 74053. Once this authorization is revoked Awenami will not use or disclose the PHI for the above-stated reasons except to the extent Awenami, a health care provider, or business associate has already relied on the authorization.

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
Awenami may change this HIPPA Notice at any time. The new notice will be effective for all protected health information maintained by Awenami and will be posted on the Site. The revised notice will become effective immediately upon posting it to the Site. 

WHAT TO DO IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED
If you think that we may have violated your privacy rights, or you disagree with a decision we made about your health information, you may make a written complaint to Aweneami, LLC at 134 W. Cooweescoowee Ave., Oologah, Oklahoma 74053. 

EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS NOTICE
This notice applies to uses and disclosures of your health information beginning on August 1, 2021.