The health ministers for the five Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are joining forces to build a shared platform for health data, drawing from the countries’ existing registries to create a database of more than 26 million patients. By leveraging this information, the ministers hope to enable more effective research on chronic and rare diseases, antibiotic resistance, and personalized medicine. Another goal of the registry is to work together to ease the legislative barriers and ethical approval of research projects in the region.