The end of June saw the announcement that Peter Thomas would be stepping into the chief clinical information officer (CCIO) role at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in August. The consultant joined the trust in 2017 and took a special interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence, pioneering the hospital's use of digital medicine and telemedicine. In his capacity as CCIO, Thomas will be in charge of raising awareness of clinical informatics as an important element in safe, high-quality patient care. He said: "I am delighted to be offered the role of chief clinical information officer at Moorfields and I hope to use this opportunity to use digital medicine in innovative ways to help our patients receive the best care possible." University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has announced Richard Mitchell will take up the position as the trust's chief executive from Autumn 2021.

AI has been at the forefront of the medical profession's efforts to fight Covid-19 and treat patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Enabling healthcare providers to make fast, accurate and data-driven decisions, the technology has been producing some extraordinary outcomes. Outside the Covid crisis, machine intelligence is lending itself to hundreds of medical applications, from scanning vast numbers of people to assess their risk of dementia to accelerating the drug discovery process. Here is just a small selection of cases where the technology is revolutionising healthcare provision. Healthcare professionals are using AI-powered speech-recognition systems to update electronic patient records more quickly and accurately.