MinuteClinic is a classic disruptive innovator – much more affordable than the status quo, convenient and easy-to-use. While the services offered may represent a small portion of the health care spend, the experience in total represents an opportunity to disrupt consumers’ expectations about how and where health-care services can be delivered.
As clinics proliferate and their use increases, PCPs may see reduced demand to treat minor conditions. Losing shorter, simpler visits could have a financial impact on PCPs’ practices.
What makes this innovation "disruptive" is that the Minute Clinic business model uses a nurse practitioner in a walk-in office located in convenient, high-traffic stores to diagnose and treat a limited number of routine conditions that make up the bulk of primary care visits, such as ear infections and strep throats. The nurse practitioner can prescribe generic drugs that can be obtained at that same store. The innovation is disrupting where and when consumers seek health care. As a result, many more people may be able to obtain care because it is more affordable and more convenient than the alternative.
The competition sought innovative, "disruptive" solutions to health care challenges such as: * Improving access to care * Lowering costs * Promoting greater efficiency * Delivering higher-quality services in ways that empower consumers.
Because MinuteClinics are less expensive for many uninsured people than a visit to a doctor’s office and are often more convenient for the insured, the model has the potential to bring basic health care to many whose access is otherwise limited.

They have a point that patients should be rightly concerned about medical errors and missed diagnoses at these medical care drive-ins. These nurses, even with their advanced training, are not doctors. It is also true serious or even life threatening