Computer Reviews Journal Vol 3 (2019) ISSN: 2581-6640 http://purkh.com/index.php/tocomp 39 Collaborative and Adaptive Framework for Telediagnosis and Prescriptions in Herbal Medicine Ogirima, Sanni Abubakar Omuya, Afolabi, Adeolu Olabode, Baale, Abimbola Adebisi Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,Ogbomoso, Nigeria Abstract Herbal medicine has been an age long tradition for the treatment and cure of diseases globally. Previous researches on telediagnosis and prescriptions in orthodox medicine studied applications of modern technological devices which could improve health care services. However, there is yet to be an exhaustive study on the audio-visual technological framework for telediagnosis and prescription in herbal medicine. Hence, the research developed a collaborative and adaptive framework for telediagnosis and prescriptions in herbal medicine. The framework and its system were developed consisting of multimedia features for videoconferencing; ability to record, capture and replay consultations; and capacity for editing, data compression and short message service amongst herbal tele-consultants. The system was experimented on Ladoke Akintola University of Technology hotspot network for a period of twenty one days in order to determine the system’s average packet loss rate and packet transmitted with five herbal tele-consultant nodes (node-1, node2, node3, node4 and node5). All nodes were allotted Internet Protocol addresses through which the intending herbal tele-consultant(s) could be connected to the telediagnosis videoconference session. Three performance metrics, System Reliability Index (SRI), System Degree of Relevance (SDR), and System Ease of Usage (SEU) were used to carry out subject to the evaluation of the system by administering one hundred questionnaires herbal consultants to harvest users’ perception of the system based on a Likert rating scale. The results obtained from telediagnosis session showed that the system recorded packet loss rates of 3.46, 3.13, 3.42, 3.61 and 3.36% at node1, node2, node3, node4 and node5, respectively. Also, the average packets of 3123.2, 5017.6, 5683.2, 4454.4 and 4249.6 bits were obtained at node1, node2, node3, node4 and node5, respectively. The summary of the subjected evaluation of the system indicate that the respondent’s response means of 3.20, 2.88.and 3.42 were obtained for the SRI, SDR and SEU, respectively on a rating scale of 1 to 5. Keywords: Collaborative, Adaptive, Telediagnosis, Prescription, Herbal medicine. 1. Introduction Herbal medicine has been in existence for a long time for the treatment and cure of tropical diseases [1]. A Collaborative provision of healthcare service to individuals or a community at distance has help greatly through telemedicine approach [2]. It consists of the managements, practices, prescriptions, diagnosis and consultations for the purpose of curing and treatment of diseases [3]. Herbal medicine is an age long tradition used for the treatment of diseases especially in Nigeria. It is quite cheaper, accessible and close-to nature [4]. In recent times, herbal medicine has found its way as an alternative to compliment orthodox medicine. Therefore, herbal medicine is an alternative to orthodox medicine, otherwise known as traditional medicine in Africa [5]. Herbal medicine is being practiced all over the world, both developing and developed nations. Its medicine is made exclusively from plant. Virtually used in all societies and common to all cultures due to its affordability and is under validation by scientific investigation, which seeks to understand the active chemistry of the plant; many modern pharmaceuticals have been modelled after, or derived from chemicals found in plants [6]. Nevertheless, modern or orthodox medicine has its own disadvantages; the common ones are the issue of price and lack of means to afford the drugs. The present economic situation in Nigeria has made it difficult for people to afford the cost and therefore, this led to patronage of alternative medicine which people use for self-medication. Self- medication is the administration of ethical drugs by a lay-man without a health Practitioner’s advice [7]. Collaborative telediagnosis refer to as the provision of media to facilitate the consulting procedures between physicians and the bed-site physician in rural or less-developed areas can consult more specialized or experienced physicians located at the remote site [3] and [8]. Remote physician can therefore examine the patient’s medical images; medical documents, real time data from the device connected to the patient, provide