It is widely anticipated that the use of health-related big data will enable
further understanding and improvements in human health and wellbeing. Our
current project, funded through the Dutch National Research Agenda, aims to
explore the relationship between the development of diabetes and socio-economic
factors such as lifestyle and health care utilization. The analysis involves
combining data from the Maastricht Study (DMS), a prospective clinical study,
and data collected by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) as part of its routine
operations. However, a wide array of social, legal, technical, and scientific
issues hinder the analysis. In this paper, we describe these challenges and our
progress towards addressing them.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, preliminary result, project repor