Health-care AI tools are being showcased by Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, and other companies in Las Vegas.

• Tech companies such as Google, Nvidia, and Microsoft are set to discuss health-care AI at the HLTH conference, which commences on Sunday.
• The conference will focus on administrative burden, a significant contributor to burnout in healthcare.
• CNBC will be on the ground at HLTH.

Numerous tech companies, including , are exhibiting artificial intelligence tools in Las Vegas next week, claiming they will help doctors and nurses save time.

This year's HLTH conference, which begins on Sunday, is predicted to attract over 12,000 industry leaders. CNBC will be reporting live from the event. Based on the conference schedule and previous announcements, AI technology to streamline administrative tasks is expected to be the main focus of the conference.

Healthcare professionals are burdened with extensive paperwork as they manage patient records, communicate with insurance providers, and adhere to regulatory requirements. This tedious process is often manual due to the fragmented and disparate nature of health information, which is stored across various vendors and formats.

The overwhelming administrative tasks contribute to burnout in the industry, which is one of the reasons for the predicted shortage of 100,000 healthcare workers by 2028, according to Mercer. Tech companies believe that their AI tools can help alleviate this issue.

Google is working to increase its customer base in the health-care industry by using AI to reduce administrative burden.

The company has made Vertex AI Search for Healthcare available to the public on Thursday, which was previously introduced in a trial capacity during HLTH last year. This tool enables developers to create tools that help doctors quickly search for information across various medical records, according to Google. Additionally, new features within Google's Healthcare Data Engine, which helps organizations build the platforms they need to support generative AI, are now available, the company announced.

On Thursday, Google released a survey revealing that clinicians spend approximately 28 hours per week on administrative tasks. The survey found that 80% of providers believe that this administrative work detracts from their time with patients, while 91% expressed a positive outlook on utilizing AI to simplify these tasks.

Microsoft unveiled a set of tools on Oct. 11 aimed at reducing clinicians' administrative burden, including medical imaging models, a healthcare agent service, and an automated documentation solution for nurses, most of which are still in the early stages of development.

Nuance Communications, a subsidiary of Microsoft, offers an automated documentation tool for doctors through DAX Copilot. This tool uses AI to transcribe doctors' visits with patients and turn them into clinical notes and summaries, saving doctors time from typing out these notes themselves.

Microsoft is developing a specialized tool for nurses to better suit their workflows, as they have different documentation requirements than doctors.

The HLTH conference will feature AI scribe tools such as DAX Copilot, as well as Nuance's competitors, Abridge, which has raised more than $460 million, and Suki, which has raised $165 million.

In March, Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO of Abridge, told CNBC that the adoption of the new clinical documentation in the health-care industry is happening at a "historic" rate. That same month, Abridge received a valuable investment from Nvidia's venture capital arm.

Nvidia is also gearing up to address doctor and nurse workloads at HLTH.

The company's vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell, will deliver a keynote Monday on how generative AI can help health-care professionals focus more on patient care, as stated on the conference website.

Nvidia's GPUs are used in OpenAI's ChatGPT and other applications, making Nvidia a major beneficiary of the AI boom. Nvidia's shares have increased by over 150% year to date and tripled last year.

Recently, Nvidia has been gaining ground in the health-care sector by providing AI tools for medical devices, drug discovery, genomics, and medical imaging. In March, the company announced partnerships with and other companies.

The adoption of new technology in the health-care sector has been slow historically, but the buzz around administrative AI tools has been significant since ChatGPT's emergence two years ago.

Health systems are in the early stages of evaluating tools and vendors, and they will be present on the HLTH exhibition floor. Tech companies will need to demonstrate their ability to solve one of healthcare's most challenging issues.