BUILDING A HEALTHIER WORKFORCE

ekincare is blending next-generation technologies to turn the employer-employee equation healthier and happier. 

MEET THE BRAND 

ekincare is a patent-pending integrated health benefits platform that is bringing health back into the focus at the workplace. With a data-driven approach to employee wellness, it is enabling workers hack into a healthier life-work balance, while helping employee-centric organizations save up to 25% in healthcare costs and lower their health insurance premiums. Ekincare’s AI-powered real-time dashboards connect over 2000 partners with health analytics, potential risks and actionable insights on their employees' health, helping them capitalize on the true potential of their human capital.
 
Employers can provide health checks, medicine home-delivery, eye care, and dental care for all employees on the ekincare platform, and provide cutting-edge health-tech services to their staff featuring telemedicine (online doctor consultations), ePharmacy (order medicines online), and online booking of health checks - all on a single and seamless mobile app experience. The delight is two way. Employees, on their part, can enjoy a personalized experience based on their health data, and also manage their family member’s health. 

That’s not all. Ekincare also has thoughtful health coach programs that help manage health issues through the step-wise programs guided by experienced personal coaches, covering diverse areas such as diabetes, BP, stress, weight control and even pregnancy management and smoking cessation.

“We at ekincare, are commited to making India Inc  healthy, happy and productive. Our one stop window offers pretty much everything for employee wellbeing, and is trusted by over 200 companies - including Fortune 500 ones - to take care of over 3.5 lack employees and their dependents”, says Kiran Kalakuntla - CEO and Founder, capturing the essence of the brand with compact clarity. Kiran Kalakuntla carries over 15 years of experience in building & marketing over 30 technology products like Moto X, which is the world's first 3D smartphone, RFI. He has managed $100M across product sales for AT&T. 

Kiran is in good company, as a quick look at the other personae in the ekincare leadership league confirms : 

Srikanth Samudrala - CTO and Co-Founder

13+ years of experience in building large scale web and mobile applications. Past Barclays, HSBC. Created Teamroq, an open-source enterprise collaboration platform.

Dr. Noel Coutinho - Chief Business Officer

20+ years of experience in insurance. Served at RGA, Metis & United health care leading various functions, including managing business for India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

THE BRAND DNA 

Vision: To create a preventive, predictive and highly personalized healthcare journey for individuals to help them adopt a healthier lifestyle and empower the corporates with relevant data and technology to reduce the overall health risks of their employees across the board.

Mission: To be the one-stop solution for holistic and personalized corporate health benefits for the employees of Indian companies.

THE BIG ZEAL: To usher a new era of predictive and preventive healthcare. 

While offering affordability and ease of access, ekincare uses patent-pending technology to extract, standardize and store insightful health information from an otherwise fragmented Healthcare system. This query-able information helps personalize health journeys and provides useful population-level analytics to structure health benefit programs for corporate employees.

With a platform that can configure and administer benefits in over 33,000+ combinations across primary users and dependents, it is a true family health assistant. In-house algorithms and technology allow for scalability and efficiency while maintaining high standards of data security and privacy (ISO27001 certified).

FILLING A GAP : Taking the hassle of healthcare off the burner at the workplace.  

ekincare provides a one-stop solution for all the health needs of an individual and helps team leaders and corporations in tracking and optimizing the health journey of all their employees in a truly customized and constantly updated manner using a sophisticated stack of AI systems. From medication and doctor consultations to mental wellness and fitness tracking, ekincare’s cohesive platform allows for on-the-fly modifications to corporate health plans and helps in designing a complete healthcare package that fits the organization’s needs.

By helping both employer and employee manage the vital element of health in a hassle-free and simple manner, and letting them shift their focus back to their core tasks,  ekincare is saving the economy precious resources, costs and manhours. By building healthier and happier teams, it is also playing a powerful role in elevating workplace morale, reducing churn cost and creating teams cum brand evangelists that are happier and more efficient.  

THE BIG USP : ekincare is India’s only integrated and exclusively B2B health and wellness platform. 

While offering affordability and ease of access, ekincare uses patent-pending technology to extract, standardize and store insightful health information from an otherwise fragmented Healthcare system. This query-able information helps personalize health journeys and provide useful population-level analytics to structure health benefit programs for corporate employees.

With a platform that can configure and administer benefits in over 33,000+ combinations across primary users and dependents, it is a true family health assistant. In-house algorithms and technology allow for scalability and efficiency while maintaining high standards of data security and privacy (ISO27001 certified).

JOURNEY SNAPSHOT: Milestones crossed and initiatives lined up.

1) Offering 100+ clients with 3L+ COVID-19 workplace vaccinations and still registering.

2) Helped more than 1000 companies & their employees during the COVID-19 lockdown with our impeccable services which included symptom checker, doctor consultations for COVID testing, home isolation support, delivery of medicines, office sanitization, etc.

3) Set up on-site camps during flu season at 13 locations and carried out over 5000+ flu vaccinations in total, as well as at-home inoculations in 15 cities. 

4) The company has also successfully completed over 35000+ RTPCR tests for various corporates so far across 72 cities.

5) Provided 50,000+ 24*7 online doctor consultations since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic. 

BRAVOS AND HAT-TIPS : Honors and rewards picked up along the way.

Brand ekincare has been making a steady dent in its space, while creating a ‘ding’ – in Steve Jobs parlance - in the consciousness of its endorsers and adopters. In return, accolades and appreciation have been flowing in from all directions. Here’s a snapshot of the glory, that has followed the guts….

1) Top 10 most innovative startups by NASSCOM

2) Top 100 most innovative digital healthcare companies, 2016

3) Aegis Graham Bell award - Innovative app for enterprise

4) Best Healthcare portal - National quality of excellence awards

5) Rising Startups – Yourstory

6) Super Startups Asia - Top 30 startups

7) Entrepreneur 35 under 35

8) Hyderabad's Hottest 10 startups awarded in the Design Conclave, July 2018

9) Best "Healthy Workplace" Brand

*This story is published by VOH team*