A new mobile app for the Google Android operating system aims to grant medical practitioners around the world access to the most up-to-date clinical information on their mobile devices, allowing them to spend more time treating patients and less time rummaging through volumes of research.

Rolled out by Marlborough, Mass.-based Skyscape, the mobile clinical decision application allows physicians to treat patients in a variety of settings and locations, without being tied to a computer. With the Android operating system, all of the medical information needed to quickly diagnose and treat a patient is available on the same mobile device.

By expanding the Skyscape system onto the Android operating system, company officials say Skyscape has become the first mobile clinical decision support provider to offer its application on all of the nation’s major mobile carriers: Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T, as well as international carriers Vodafone, Orange and Rogers. In addition to their current iPhone enabled app, the Skyscape program will now be available on a number of Android OS enabled phones, including the HTC Touch, the Zii Trinity, Samsung Behold, G2, G3, G4, MyTouch, and DROID.

The program’s tools include drug dosing calculators, drug interaction warnings, medical alerts, and the latest research and updated clinical practice guidelines. The company’s medical resources system includes three resources with a one-time installation of Skyscape Reader at no cost: OCM (Outlines in Clinical Medicine), RxDrugs (RxDrugs Dosing Companion) and Archimedes (Archimedes Medical Calculator).