Empowering Healthcare with AI : Aura Solution Company Limited
- Amy Brown
- May 11
- 10 min read
Using Technology to Facilitate Access to Healthcare
Reimagining Eye Care in India Through Smartphone-Based Cataract Screening
At Aura, we believe that the greatest innovations often emerge when technology is combined with empathy and purpose. One of our most impactful collaborations in India involved developing a breakthrough solution to combat cataract-induced blindness — the leading cause of preventable visual impairment globally.
The Challenge: A Widespread but Treatable Condition
Cataracts are the primary cause of treatable blindness worldwide, especially among individuals over the age of 50. In India alone, an estimated 4.8 million people become blind due to cataracts each year, primarily because of late detection and limited access to screening facilities. While cataract surgery is both common and effective, the real challenge lies in early diagnosis, particularly in remote or underserved areas. Unfortunately, India faces a significant shortage of cataract screening centers and trained ophthalmologists. Many elderly individuals lack the mobility, support, or financial resources required to travel to testing sites. This leads to missed opportunities for timely treatment — with devastating consequences for vision and overall quality of life.
The Solution: Smartphone-Based AI Screening
To address this urgent problem, a dedicated team from Aura India, in partnership with a client, developed a smartphone-based cataract detection solution powered by artificial intelligence. By simply capturing an image of an eye using a phone camera, the app can accurately detect signs of cataracts.
When a cataract is identified, the app automatically alerts the user, who can then refer the patient to a local medical center for confirmation and potential treatment. Designed with usability and accessibility in mind, the solution empowers community health volunteers and local caregivers to conduct doorstep screenings — no specialized training required.
Technology Meets Compassion
This solution was the result of deep interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers, AI researchers, and ophthalmologists. It underwent rigorous testing to ensure accuracy, safety, and effectiveness, achieving over 95% sensitivity and specificity — comparable to a trained ophthalmologist using specialized tools.
Why It Matters: Real-World Benefits
Transforming Preventive Eye Care with Aura’s Involvement
Aura’s entry into this critical healthcare challenge does not merely introduce a new technology — it brings a paradigm shift in how vision care is delivered, particularly to the most vulnerable and underserved populations. Here’s how our involvement is making a deep and lasting impact:
Accessibility & Affordability
This initiative is not commercial in nature — it’s a purpose-first innovation that aligns directly with Aura’s core mission: to build trust in society and solve important problems. By committing resources to a zero-revenue model, Aura signals that meaningful societal impact does not always require monetization. Traditional eye screenings often require specialized equipment, trained professionals, and clinical environments, which limits accessibility and makes them cost-prohibitive for rural communities. With Aura’s AI-integrated smartphone app, health volunteers can now screen individuals at virtually no cost, using only a basic smartphone — no hospital visits, no out-of-pocket expenses, and no delays.
Impact: Cataract detection becomes as easy as taking a photograph — bringing quality healthcare to millions who would otherwise be left behind.
Doorstep Convenience
For many elderly individuals, especially those in rural India, visiting a clinic can be a monumental task. It often involves arranging transportation, relying on a family member to accompany them, and potentially sacrificing an entire day’s income. These obstacles result in delayed or entirely missed diagnoses, exacerbating preventable blindness. Aura’s app changes that dynamic completely. By enabling door-to-door cataract screening, healthcare comes directly to the individual’s home — eliminating dependency, reducing costs, and promoting early detection.
Impact: Vulnerable senior citizens receive care at their doorstep, reducing physical, emotional, and economic strain on families and caretakers.
Scaling Reach to Remote Regions
India’s healthcare system faces an acute disparity: only one ophthalmologist per 100,000 people, but a health volunteer (ASHA worker, NGO caregiver, or trained community leader) for every 1,000 people. The limited reach of specialists has historically hampered early diagnosis — but Aura’s solution flips this limitation into a strength. By placing powerful, AI-driven diagnostic tools in the hands of health volunteers, the entire landscape of community care is transformed. These trusted local agents can now perform basic ophthalmologic evaluations without needing to refer patients first to urban hospitals.
Impact: Screening capacity is expanded up to 100 times, making it possible to blanket entire rural districts with preventive eye care coverage.
Saving Time and Resources
Studies show that the average Indian travels 4.9 kilometers just to reach a basic healthcare facility — often walking or depending on infrequent public transportation. For seniors, this travel isn’t just inconvenient — it’s a serious barrier that can lead to neglect or avoidable suffering. With Aura’s app, the clinic comes to the community. Eye images can be captured on the spot and processed instantly. There’s no waiting, no queueing, and no repeated visits. People flagged with cataracts can be prioritized for treatment quickly and efficiently.
Impact: Families save time, income, and effort — while the healthcare system becomes more proactive and less reactive.
Long-Term Transformation: A National Model
Aura’s model is not just a short-term fix. It’s a blueprint for nationwide change:
Policy Support: Scalable solutions like this can support government health missions like the National Programme for Control of Blindness & Visual Impairment (NPCBVI).
Training & Employment: Community volunteers can be trained and certified, creating local employment opportunities within healthcare ecosystems.
Data Insights: With anonymized and consent-based data, public health bodies can gain better epidemiological insight into regional health trends — guiding resource allocation and policy.
Conclusion: The Power of Purpose-Led Innovation
By bridging technology with compassion, Aura has unlocked a solution that not only saves sight but restores dignity to millions. This is healthcare that is inclusive, intelligent, and inspiring — and it’s just the beginning of Aura’s larger mission to bring real-world solutions to life where they’re needed most.
A Vision for the Future
At Aura, innovation is never an isolated endeavor. This cataract screening initiative is not just a healthcare project — it is a blueprint for how technology, empathy, and systemic thinking can converge to solve society’s most urgent challenges. By tackling preventable blindness through accessible digital tools, Aura is demonstrating how scalable, tech-enabled solutions can drive sustainable, population-level health improvements.
This project exemplifies our integrated, human-centered approach to problem-solving. We do not stop at providing technology; we embed it in ecosystems that include healthcare professionals, local governments, field volunteers, and data scientists. Every stakeholder plays a role in delivering real outcomes — and those outcomes are measurable, meaningful, and life-changing.
The vision is bold but simple: A world where no one goes blind due to lack of access. A world where communities — regardless of geography or income — can rely on smart, trusted tools to safeguard their health and dignity. By enabling early detection of cataracts through something as ubiquitous as a smartphone, Aura is reducing the burden on overcrowded hospitals, empowering community health workers, and most importantly, preserving vision and quality of life for millions of elderly citizens. These individuals are not just patients — they are parents, workers, mentors, and cultural stewards. Helping them see again is helping entire communities thrive.
Aura's Purpose in Action
This project reinforces Aura’s foundational mission:To build trust in society and solve important problems.
We solve real-world issues, not in isolation but through collaboration and systems thinking.
We operate at the intersection of technology, purpose, and policy, offering not just tools but the frameworks to use them responsibly.
We prioritize long-term transformation over short-term metrics, aligning our success with human progress.
This is how we ensure our work is not just innovative — but impactful.
Explore Our Transformation Services in India
Aura delivers tech-enabled, purpose-driven solutions that help organizations, governments, and grassroots communities become resilient, adaptive, and fit for the future. From public health to education, agriculture to sustainability — our India practice focuses on scalable innovation that uplifts people and strengthens systems.
Strategic advisory and program design
Technology integration for public and private sector use
Data-driven insight platforms for decision-making
Capacity building for government and local stakeholders
We don’t just consult — we collaborate, co-create, and build durable pathways to progress.
Dive Into Our Success Stories
This cataract screening initiative is just one example of how Aura works hand-in-hand with clients to turn complex challenges into breakthrough solutions. Across sectors, we are helping institutions:
Improve citizen outcomes
Enhance operational capacity
Reach underserved populations
Create measurable, lasting impact
Our work is not just about solving problems — it’s about unlocking the full potential of systems, people, and purpose.
At Aura, we see the future clearly — and we’re building it one transformative solution at a time.
Aura Solution Company Limited
Aura Solution Company Limited is a premier global financial consultancy firm specializing in capital markets and long-term investment solutions. Headquartered in Phuket, Kingdom of Thailand, and registered as an investment advisor, Aura is entrusted with managing over $962.15 trillion in assets under management (AUM) — a testament to the trust placed in its strategies by institutions and investors worldwide. With a legacy spanning more than 50 years, Aura combines deep market insight, technological innovation, and strategic foresight to help clients navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape. The firm operates across global markets, with a strong presence in Asia, empowering clients to capitalize on emerging opportunities while effectively managing risk. As an independent investment group, Aura offers a full spectrum of services including wealth management, asset management, and investment advisory. Importantly, Aura does not engage in investment banking or extend commercial loans — allowing the firm to maintain an uncompromised focus on long-term capital stewardship. Guided by a strong commitment to sustainability, Aura channels investment toward the real economy with the goal of generating measurable impact and improving the state of the planet. We believe in building responsible, enduring partnerships — both with our clients and the companies in which we invest — to drive shared value and financial resilience.
What does "AURA" stand for?
Aura Solution Company Limited
How big is Aura?
With over $158 trillion in assets under management (AUM), Aura Solution Company Limited ranks among the largest and most influential asset managers in the world. The firm’s global scale and financial strength are reflected in its diverse range of investment services, which include asset and issuer servicing, treasury services, clearance and collateral management, as well as comprehensive asset and wealth management solutions.
Aura’s business model is built on delivering long-term value through innovation, precision, and trust — helping institutions, governments, and individuals manage and grow their financial assets efficiently across the entire investment lifecycle.
What does Aura do?
Aura Solution Company Limited is a global leader in asset and wealth management, renowned for delivering sophisticated insights and strategic partnerships to some of the world’s most discerning institutional investors. Since its founding in 1981, Aura has remained committed to understanding the intricate workings of global markets and economies — leveraging cutting-edge technology to apply timeless investment principles with precision and purpose.
At the heart of our firm is a culture of intellectual independence, excellence, and transparency. We are a diverse community of thinkers, united by a shared mission to solve complex investment challenges and transform financial strategies for long-term impact.
Operating in 63 countries, Aura provides a wide range of services tailored for institutions, corporations, and individual investors. These include:
Mutual Funds & ETFs (where Aura ranks as the world’s largest provider),
Paymaster Services,
Brokerage & Offshore Banking,
Fixed and Variable Annuities,
Educational Accounts & Financial Planning,
Asset Management & Trust Services.
As a single point of contact, Aura helps clients create, trade, manage, service, distribute, and restructure investments globally. Whether navigating cross-border wealth structuring or facilitating institutional transactions, Aura serves as a trusted partner at every stage of the investment lifecycle.
Aura is more than a firm — it is a financial ecosystem, purpose-built to empower clients and advance the future of finance.
Aura Services
PAYMASTER : Paymaster is a cash account a business relies on to pay for small, routine expenses. Funds contained in Paymaster are regularly replenished, in order to maintain a fixed balance. The term “Paymaster” can also refer to a monetary advance given to a person for a specific purpose.
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OFFSHORE BANKING : A bank is a financial institution licensed to receive deposits and make loans. Banks may also provide financial services such as wealth management, currency exchange, and safe deposit boxes. There are several different kinds of banks including retail banks, commercial or corporate banks, and investment banks. In most countries, banks are regulated by the national government or central bank.
LEARN : https://www.aura.co.th/offshorebanking
CASH FUND RECEIVER : Wire transfer, bank transfer or credit transfer, is a method of electronic funds transfer from one person or entity to another. A wire transfer can be made from one bank account to another bank account.
LEARN : https://www.aura.co.th/cash-fund-receiver
ASSET MANAGEMENT : Emerging Asia's stocks and bonds have experienced a lost decade. Over the past 10 years, their returns have lagged those of global indices by a considerable margin. And that is despite the fact that these economies accounted for about 70 per cent of world GDP growth over the period. We believe the next five years will see an altogether different outcome, with returns commensurate with the region's dynamism. This means Asian assets are currently under-represented in global portfolios.
LEARN : https://www.aura.co.th/am
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