last comment, this from the AC site on Practice Management interfacing:

If you have this practice management program installed and configured, you can try our interface to it for free to ensure it works correctly for your practice. Contact your practice management company for guidance on configuring their software to deliver the HL7 files to the Amazing Charts directory. Once your practice management program delivers demographic HL7 files to the Amazing Charts directory and listens for billing HL7 files as well, you can enter the interface trial code below and use the connection free for 30 days....

so, I will need to check if MS V17 is written for HL7 integration; until then I will rely on X-Link; thanks