India Inc is moving from episodic, reactive healthcare to continuous preventive health management, with annual health check utilisation rising 48% year-on-year and doctor consultations increasing 2.5 times, a report said.
According to digital health platform ekincare’s ‘India Inc-Preventive Health Utilisation Report 2026’, the healthcare sector led the surge with 122% growth, followed by BFSI at 108% and IT and software at 29%, indicating that high-pressure industries are becoming more health conscious.
The report highlights a generational shift in employee behaviour. Gen Z recorded more than double the growth in health engagement over two years, outpacing millennials at 44.5% and employees aged over 40 at 30%. Mental wellness, once considered optional, is now a standard benefit at 10.53% of companies, with BFSI and IT seeing the highest uptake among Gen Z and millennials.
“What we are seeing across India Inc is a clear shift in mindset, Indian organisations are no longer managing health reactively,” said Kiran Kalakuntla, co-founder of ekincare. “They are beginning to use health intelligence to make better workforce decisions. That is a fundamental shift.”
While tier-1 cities account for 68% of annual health check volumes, tier-2 and tier-3 cities contribute 32%, signalling wider access to preventive healthcare beyond metropolitan areas.
Despite the gains, gaps remain. Factory and shop-floor workers are underrepresented in health data, with more than 80% classified as ungraded. Remote and distributed workforces show a utilisation intensity of 1.0, indicating no follow-up care beyond initial interaction. Senior leadership, though the smallest group by volume, records the highest engagement quality, with pharmacy, annual health checks and consultation intensity exceeding the employee average.
“When preventive care is continuous and backed by data, it stops being a benefit and starts building something more valuable-a workforce that is resilient, available and performing at its best,” said Kalakuntla.
Preventive care is not the future of work, it is already the present and the organisations that recognise this the earliest will define what resilient India Inc looks like, he added.
The ekincare platform serves over 2 million employees across 1,100+ organisations, including Fortune 500 companies such as PepsiCo, BlackRock and Visa, and has a network of 90,000 healthcare providers across 500 cities.
