The ‘Digital Red Cross’ is encouraging Red Cross employees in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, to learn and use digital tools and technologies, whilst ensuring that caring roles still have the human touch.

When it comes to digital transformation in the care sector, staff often worry that their jobs will be automated, that they will not be able to keep up with the technologies involved, or that care will lose its humanity and compassion.

That's why Germany's Red Cross (DRK), in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, has created a project called the Digital Red Cross, or #diRK. It is helping DRK staff to learn how digital technologies – from digital time recording, accounting and duty roster design, to computer-controlled care beds and care robots – can be used to make their jobs easier, improve services, and encourage more people into care roles, whilst ensuring that care continues to be personal and humane.