1. A method for simultaneously processing different categories of source data into informational data, and then processing different groups of informational data into knowledge-based data in a first computer or in a plurality of computers, the method comprising: acquiring a plurality of sets of source data within a first category of data for at least one test subject or process; processing the sets of source data within the first category utilizing a first occurrence of a first-tier computer program executing on a first computer in the first computer system to produce a first group of informational data; processing the sets of source data within a second category of data utilizing a second occurrence of a first-tier computer program executing on either the first computer or another computer in the first computer system to produce a second group of informational data; processing the first group and the second group of informational data with a second-tier computer program executing on either the first computer or another computer to produce knowledge-based data; and transmitting at least one of the source data, the informational data and the knowledge-based data from the first computer to a second computer having other source data, informational data or knowledge-based data for evaluation with the data from the first computer.